Dr. Peter Kekung Bessong

MBBS (Sydney), FRACS (Paediatric Surgery)

Dr. Peter Kekung Bessong is an Associate Professor of Accounting and a lecturer in the Department of Accounting, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar- Nigeria. He is an astute scholar, with keen interest in areas of Accounting such as Cost and Management Accounting, Management Accounting, Public Sector Accounting, Forensic Accounting and International Accounting. Dr. Bessong has passion for team work where new ideas and innovation are carried out, hence contributing positively towards the attainment of goals. In 2007, University of Calabar awarded him with Doctor of Science (Ph.D) degree in Accounting. He had been teaching above mentioned courses to undergraduate and post graduate students of the department for many years. He has been twice member of Senate of the University of Calabar, as Faculty Senate Representative and an Acting Head of Department respectively. Dr. Bessong worked with the Defunct Cross River State. Palm Board up to 1996, before joining the service of University of Calabar in 1998. He is a member of the Academy of Management Nigeria, European Centre for Research Training and Development, UK and Association of Fraud Examiner USA. He has over twenty empirical articles in foreign and local journals and has attended some conferences..