Jacques Totowa

JACQUES TOTOWA (PHD) Dr. Jacques Totowa is a Lecturer of Accounting and Finance at Wits Business school, the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Dr Totowa research interests are centered on corporate reporting, Impression management in the narratives section of financial reports, corporate governance, the relationship between accounting reporting and firms market performance, earnings management, and the determinants of firm’s market performance. Dr Totowa lectures Introduction to Finance, Management Accounting & Finance for the PDBA program, Financial & Management Accounting on the PDM program;Management Accounting & Finance, Finance & Investment Decision and Strategic Finance for the MBA. Since 2018 Dr Jacques Totowa has served as MBA-ARP convenor where he also facilitates the apply research methodology and the critical enquiry skill modules. He serves on both the school’s ethics committee and ad-hoc committee on plagiarism. Dr Jacques Totowa boasts of extensive experience in the mining industry. He has worked as finance coordinator with a multinational gold mining corporation with responsibility for China, Colombia, the DRC and the Solomon Island. This has exposed Dr Totowa to the structuring of multibillion dollars gold mining projects. Dr Totowa is a research associate and consultant at African Review of Economic and Finance consult. He is also a reviewer for AREF journals and the accounting research journal in Australia.