Rúben Miguel Torcato Peixinho is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics - University of Algarve and a member of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics (CEFAGE). He holds an MSc in Finance from the University of Algarve, an MSc in Management Research from the University of Cranfield and a PhD in Management (Accounting and Finance) from The University of Edinburgh. He is currently the Director of the Master Course in Accounting, and is a member of the board of directors of the B.A. in Business Management, the Master Course in Finance and the Master Course in Financial Economics at the University of Algarve. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee and Pedagogical Committee. He teaches several courses (Cost Accounting, Management Accounting, Advanced Management Accounting, Accounting and Finance, Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Accounting and Management Control in Health Care Units, Financial Statement Analysis and Theory of Finance) in the B.A., Master courses and Ph.D. programs. He completed successfully the supervision of 27 master theses and 1 Ph.D. thesis and he is currently supervising several master and Ph.D. students in the accounting and finance domain. His main research interests are in market-based accounting research, financial distress, security analysts, financial performance and costing systems. He has presented his research in several international conferences and has published some of his research in international and national academic journals such as the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Total Quality Management & Business Excellence or the Meditati Accountancy Research.