Dr. Afshan is the General Course Coordinator (GCC) of B291 and ACC302. She is also working as a Branch Course Chair (BCC) for several courses during different semesters. She is teaching accounting as well as general management courses. During her previous employment, she taught accounting, finance, economics, and a variety of business studies modules at the graduate and post-graduate levels. 

Dr. Afshan has more than 18 years of teaching experience at different colleges and universities. She is teaching at Arab Open University since 2012. She also worked in Al Musannah College of Technology (Oman), Oman College of Management and Technology (Oman), Iqra University (Pakistan), and PEF college (Pakistan).   

Dr. Afshan has published several papers and participated in different conferences at the national and international levels. She is continually pursuing research in the area of accounting and also current affairs' influence on the business environment. 

·         Presented a paper “Empirical Review of Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility in the Sultanate of Oman” at International Conference on Global Economic Revolutions: The Era of the Digital Economy, Organized by Ahlia University Bahrain on 27^th & 28^th February 2023 (Scopus Indexed)

·         Presented a paper “Empirical Review on the Use of Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain in the Sultanate of Oman” at International Conference on Cyber Management and Engineering (CyMaEn) on 26th January 2023 (Published in IEEE)

·         Published a research paper “The effect of Ownership Structure on Leverage of the Listed Companies in Oman” at the proceedings of 4th Canadian International Conference on Humanities & Social Sciences 2022” in International Multidisciplinary Research Journal - ISSN 2424-7073 (ISBN: 978-1-988652-44-3) September 2022 ProceedingsHUSO2022-.pdf (imrjournal.info)

·         Published a paper “Review of Corporate Governance Theories” in European Journal of Business and Management Research Volume 7, Issue 6, 2022 ISSN: 2507-1076 DOI: 10.24018/ejbmr.2022.7.6.1668 

·         Published a research paper “Empirical Review of Business Challenges and Opportunities from the Covid-19 Pandemic” in the Journal of Business, Management, and Accounting Vol. 2, No. 2 (July 2022) https://doi.org/10.32890/jbma2022.12.2

·         Published a research paper “The Impact of Audit Committee Structure on Capital Structure: A Case of Omani Listed Companies” in the International Journal of Business and Applied Social Sciences, volume 8, issue 7, July 2022. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33642/ijbass.v8n7p1

·         Presented a research paper “The effect of Ownership Structure on Leverage of the Listed Companies in Oman” at the 4th Canadian International Conference on Humanities & Social Sciences 2022” (ISBN: 978-1-988652-44-3) 25th and 26th June 2022, in Toronto Canada.

·         Presented a research paper “Exploring the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Leverage of Listed Companies in Oman” on May 26th and 27th 2022, Spain 6th International Conference on Banking and Finance on Economic Development, Public Finance, Energy, Environment

·         Published a research paper “Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility by Constructing an Index: An Empirical Evidence from Oman” in the Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics book series (EBES, volume 22) pages 231-244. Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility by Constructing an Index: An Empirical Evidence from Oman | SpringerLink

·         Published a research paper “Construction of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Disclosure Index and its Practices by Listed Companies in Oman” in the International Journal of Business and Management Future, Vol.6, No.1, 2021, USA https://www.acseusa.org/journal/index.php/aijefr/article/view/225

·         Presented a research paper “The Influence of Audit Committee Structure on Leverage of the listed companies in Oman” on 25th May 2021 in International Asian Conference on Business, Economics and Social Sciences (ACBESS 2021)

·         Presented a research article “Construction of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Disclosure Index and its Practices by listed companies in Oman” on 25th May 2021 in International Asian Conference on Business, Economics and Social Sciences (ACBESS 2021)

·         Presented a research paper “Measuring a Corporate Social Responsibility by Constructing Index: Empirical Evidence from Oman” on 9th April 2021 organized by Eurasia Business and Economics Society and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. DOI. 10.1007/978-3-030-94672-2-14

·         Presented a paper and Published a Book chapter with ISBN 978-99969-838-0-1 “Empirical Review of Covid-19 Pandemic Effect's on the Corporate Social Responsibility in Oman: Challenges and Opportunities” on 8th March 2021 in International Conference on Co-creating the Post Covid-19 World - Exploring Sustainable Paths, Arab Open University, Oman.

·         Published a research paper “Board of Directors Influence on Leverage: A Conceptual Perspective” on December 2020, in the International Journal of Applied Research in Management and Economics (IJARME) with DOI:10.33422/ijarme.v3i3.500

·         Presented a research paper “A conceptual Model – The impact of Board structure on capital structure among Oman Public Listed Companies” on 29th March 2020 in Second International Conference on Research in Business, Management and Finance at Oxford University, UK

·         Published a research paper “Essentially of internal control in Audit process” on November 30th, 2019 in the International Journal of Business Applied Social Sciences (IJBASS) with DOI:10.33642/ijbass.v5n11p1.

·         Presented a research paper “The Economic Dimension of Culture; the Importance of Culture as an Element of Economic Development and Wealth Generation” on 12th April 2017 at the International Conference on Investment in Culture.