Samuel Buertey

Samuel Buertey

Associate Program Manager, Accounting

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Samuel holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and is a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional with over nine years of teaching experience, including five years at Hannam University in South Korea. He currently teaches corporate governance, sustainability reporting, and other accounting-related courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at RMIT Vietnam, Saigon South Campus.

His research interests include financial reporting and firm disclosure, corporate governance, sustainability reporting, and corporate social responsibility. His work has been published in high-ranking academic journals, including Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, Management Decision, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, and Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility.


Awards & recognition:

  • Finalist, RMIT Vietnam 2025 Storytelling for Impactful Research Competition
  • Recognition of Research Excellence, RMIT Vietnam – Top 2–5% Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications, Quarter 1, 2025
  • Recognition of Research Excellence, RMIT Vietnam – Top 2–5% Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications, 2024
  • Highly Commended Learning and Teaching Enabling Award – COBL, RMIT 2023
  • Guest editor – Administrative Sciences (2022)
  • Member – Institute of Management Accountants, US
  • Member – Korean Accounting Association, South Korea

    Industry experience:
    - Co-founder of AFREA, a B2B Trading and consulting company based in Daejeon, South Korea.

Research fields

  • 350107 Sustainability accounting and reporting
  • 350702 Corporate social responsibility
  • 350701 Corporate governance
  • 350103 Financial accounting
  • 3501 Accounting, auditing and accountability

Academic positions

  • Interim Asscoaite Program Manager - Accounting and Law
  • RMIT Vietnam
  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • 16 Oct 2023 – Present
  • Lecturer
  • RMIT Vietnam
  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • 1 Oct 2021 – Present
  • Assistant Professor
  • Hannam University
  • Department of Accounting
  • Daejeon, South Korea
  • 2016 – 2021

Non-academic positions

  • Accounts officer
  • Sucatrade Limited
  • Tema, Ghana
  • 2012 – 2013
  • Accounts officer
  • Bechem Government Hospital
  • Bechem, Ghana
  • 2011 – 2012

Supervisor projects

  • A Multi-Level Approach To Explore The Barriers And Enablers For Sustainability Reporting Practices In Vietnam
  • 11 Feb 2025

Teaching interests

- Accounting in Organisation and Society
- Accounting Data Analytics and Visualisation
- Management Accounting and Performance Evaluation
- Sustainability Reporting, Accountability and Socially Responsible Entities
- Accounting for Sustainable Management (Graduate Level)

- Corporate Governance (Graduate Level)

Research interests

- Sustainability reporting
- Corporate governance
- Financial reporting and disclosure
- CSR assurance
- IFRS