Ms Rocchina Covucci

About

Rocchina Covucci is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Accounting at Southampton Business School.

Rocchina’s teaching activities focus on accounting modules providing effective and innovative research-led teaching in the field of Accounting and Finance. She is teaching Introduction to Accounting and Finance for level 4, Management Accounting 3 for level 6 and directly supervising students, providing advice on study skills and helping them with learning problems.

Rocchina is PSRBs coordinator, responsible for liaising with the relevant professional bodies and coordinate all the aspects relating to the accreditation and re-accreditation process.

She was appointed as PG Admission Tutor who will provide academic oversight for the admission criteria and processes.

Rocchina aims to contribute to the development of new teaching approaches and course proposal.

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Research

Research interests

Mergers and acquisitions
Accounting
Auditing
Financial accounting
Sustainability

Current research

Rocchina is a dynamic and inquisitive person which led her to follow a direction of study, whilst at the same time differentiating her research and insights. Her dissertation at the University of Salerno focused on the creation and management of innovative companies in the field of tele-radiotherapy of cancer. She analysed the experimental models and the impact of the implementation of telemedicine systems, considering how their organizational and economical complexity is balanced by their enormous potential.

In order to polish her skills, she also completed a Master’s degree in Business Management with an analysis and dissertation on the Chinese accounting system, where she studied the evolutionary dynamics and the process of international harmonisation carried out by the People's Republic of China from a legal and regulatory point of view.

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Teaching

Given her experience in practice, Rocchina realises the importance of understanding and teaching the issues of management and accountancy from an academic point of view, aiming to help students to acknowledge the why behind theory and link it to the facts of actual practice in order to bring the subject to life.

She has experience in providing audit training to new graduate joiners and allocating responsibilities and assigning duties.

She is teaching Introduction to Accounting and Finance and Management Accounting 3.

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Biography

Rocchina is an experienced ACA qualified Chartered Accountant, full member of the ICAEW and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Management from the University of Salerno (Italy).

Rocchina joined Southampton Business School in August 2022 having previously worked in top ten accountancy firms based in Southampton.

Rocchina has worked in professional services firms for more than seven years and spent nearly three years in industry gaining experience in several different disciplines of practice. Given her extensive practical experience in auditing, financial reporting, corporate finance, as well as management accounting, Rocchina’s analytical skills and practical knowledge gained working hands-on in the field are an important source of information that will enable students to visualise the meaning of theoretical concepts when applied in practice, thus, helping them to achieve their goals and fulfil their potential.

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