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Prof. Kingsley Appiah is an Associate Professor in Sustainability Accounting and Environmental Management at the Department of Accountancy and Accounting Information Systems (AAIS), Kumasi Technical University (KsTU). Prof. Kingsley Appiah has a broad background and teaching experience in Sustainability Accounting, Environmental Management, Performance Management, Management Accounting, Cost Accounting, Principles of Accounting, and Research Methods.
Prof. Kingsley Appiah holds a Ph.D. in Management Science & Engineering, Master of Business Administration, Master of Laws (LLM), Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), Higher National Diploma (HND), Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) and Member of Centre for International Mediators and Arbitrators in England and Wales (MCIMarb). His research interest includes Sustainability Accounting, Environmental Management, Environmental and Energy economics, Environmental Modeling, Sustainability Management and Development, Climate Change and Environmental Policy. He has more than twenty-eight (28) peer-reviewed journal articles to his credit. He has served as a Reviewer for top-notch journals. Currently, he is Academic Editor of PLOS ONE.
PhD in Management Science & Engineering
Master of Laws (LLM) in Energy Law
Master of Business Administration in Management Accounting
Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Cost & Management Accounting
Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accountancy
Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Business-Accounting option)
- Centre for International Mediators and Arbitrators (MCIMarb) in England and Wales
- World Association for Sustainable Development
- European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- Cost & Management Accounting
- Sustainability Accounting, Environmental Management,
- Sustainability Management and Development
- Environmental and Energy Economics
- International Trade Policy
- Performance Management
- Management Accounting
- Cost Accounting, Cost and Business Accounting,
- Principle of Accounting
- Research Methods
- Ethics
- Legal Environment and Sustainability Policy
- Managerial Performance and Decision Making
Assessor: Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC)
Academic Editor: PLOS ONE (United States)
Editor: International Journal of Negative Results (United States)
Reviewer:
1. Journal of Cleaner Production
2. Ecological Indicators
3. Environment, Development and Sustainability
4. Environmental Engineering Research
5. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
6. Environmental Science and Pollution Research
7. Clean Technologies and Environment Policy
8. MethodsX
9. Emerging markets Finance & Trade
10. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science
11. Environmental Research Communication
12. Journal of Economic Structures
13. Environmental and Ecological Statistics
14. BMC Public Health
15. Environmental Science Europe
16. Technological Forecasting and Social Change
17. Environmental Processes
1. 3RD EMAN-Africa Conference on Water Management and Accounting- South Africa 2014.
2. International Conference on Advanced Chemical Engineering and Environmental Sustainability (ICACEES 2018). May 15-16, Guangzhou China. Paper presented: Anthropogenic Factors Impact on Ghana Using Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology and Cobb-Douglas Production Function.
3. The IAFOR International Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment (Hawaii, USA). January 3-5, Hawaii 2019. Paper presented: The Causal Nexus between Food System, Economic Development and Environmental Pollution in Selected Emerging Economies.
1. Appiah, K., Mintah Oware, K., Nkansah, E., & Debrah, O. (2025). Effect of environmental tax on ecological quality using machine learning algorithm. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 15(5), 255-267.
2. Yeboah, B., Appiah, K., Osman, H. B., & Atuahene, S. O. O. (2024). Cash dividend payment and EPS Performance Insights: Evidence from Selected Standard and Poor Economic Sectors in Time-Series Approach.
3. Anaba, O. A., Asunka, B. A., Appiah, K., Akaligang, C., & Adongo, B. (2025). Analyzing the Technical and Super Efficiency of Rural Banks Amidst Economic crisis in Ghana. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 15(2).
4. Oware, K. M., Appiah, K., & Agyemang, V. S. (2024). Taxi Drivers’ Experience with Mobile Money Service during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Kumasi Metropolitan Area in Ghana. International Journal of Innovation and Development, 2(1).
5. Yeboah, B., Appiah, K., & Yeboah, M. (2025). Is there a Causal Effect Between the Climate Vulnerability Components and the Government Tax Revenue in Ghana? ARDL Approach. Journal of Tax Reform, 11(3), 643-661.
6. Kingsley Appiah, Thomas Adomah Worae, Benjamin Yeboah and Michael Yeboah. The causal nexus between trade openness and environmental pollution in selected emerging economies. Ecological Indicators (2022) 138:108872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108872.
7. Kingsley Appiah., Rhoda Appah, William Barnes, and Ernest Appiah Darko. Testing the validity of disaggregated agricultural-induced growth–environmental pollution nexus in selected emerging economies. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-022-04217-5.
8. Kofi Mintah Oware and Kingsley Appiah. Female directors and corporate innovation in family firms in India. Do leverage ratios and mandatory CSR expenditure matter? Journal of Global Responsibility (2022). DOI: 10.1108/JGR-05-2022-0047.
9. Kingsley Appiah, Jianguo Du and John Poku. Causal relationship between agricultural production and carbon dioxide emissions in selected emerging economies. Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2018) 25:24764–24777. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-2523-z .
10. Kingsley Appiah, Jianguo Du, Michael Yeboah, Rhoda Appiah. Causal correlation between energy use and carbon emissions in selected emerging economies-panel model approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2019) 26:7896-7912. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-04140-2.
11. XuezhouWen, Daniel Quacoe, Dinah Quacoe, Kingsley Appiah and Bertha Ada Danso. Analysis on Bioeconomy’s Contribution to GDP: Evidence from Japan. Sustainability, (2019) 11(712).
12. Kofi Baah Boamah, Jianguo Du, Angela Jacinta Boamah, Kingsley Appiah. A study on the causal effect of urban population growth and international trade on environmental pollution: evidence from China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2018) 25(6): 5862-5874. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0882-5.
13. Kingsley Appiah, Jianguo Du, Michael Yeboah, Rhoda Appiah. Causal relationship between Industrialization, Energy Intensity, Economic Growth and Carbon dioxide emissions: recent evidence from Uganda. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy (2019) 9(2): 237-245. https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.7420.
14. Kofi Mintah Oware, Kingsley Appiah. CSR assurance practice and financial distress likelihood. Evidence from India. Meditari Accountancy Research (2021). DOI 10.1108/MEDAR-10-2020-1055.
15. Kofi Mintah Oware and Kingsley Appiah. CEO Characteristics, Family-controlled Firms and Employer-support Volunteerism: Evidence from India. FIIB Business Review (2022). DOI: 10.1177/23197145221105977.
16. Kofi Mintah Oware and Kingsley Appiah. Female directors and corporate innovation in family firms in India. Do leverage ratios and mandatory CSR expenditure matter? Journal of Global Responsibility (2022).
17. Kofi Mintah Oware, Kingsley Appiah and Thomas Adomah Worae. CSR disclosure and debt financing in India: does CEO tenure matter? Journal of Applied Accounting Research (2022). DOI 10.1108/JAAR-08-2021-0204.
18. Kingsley Appiah, Jianguo Du, Rhoda Appah and Daniel Quacoe. Prediction of potential carbon dioxide emissions of emerging economies. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering A 7 (2018) 321-335 https://doi:10.17265/2162-5298/2018.08.003
19. Kingsley Appiah, Jianguo Du, Abdul-Aziz Ibn Musah, Samuel Afriyie. Investigation of the Relationship between Economic Growth and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions as Economic Structure Changes: Evidence from Ghana. Resources and Environment (2017) 7(6): 160-167. https://doi:10.5923/j.re.20170706.02
20. Kingsley Appiah, Rhoda Appah, Oware Kofi Mintah, Benjamin Yeboah. Economic Growth, Industrialization, Trade, Electricity Production and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Evidence from Ghana. Journal of Economic Science Research (2021) 04(01): 31-43
21. Kingsley Appiah, Jianguo Du, Kofi Baah Boamah. The Effect of Environmental Performance on Firm’s Performance – Evidence from Ghana. British Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (2017) 8(1): 340-348.
22. Kingsley Appiah, Jianguo Du, Rhoda Appiah. Economic Activity Indicators, Environmental Pollution and Infant Mortality Relations: Evidence from Ghana. International Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2018) 4(1): 7-15.
23. Kingsley Appiah, Jianguo Du, Patrick Boateng Sarpong. Non-Revenue Water Management in Ghana: The Opportunities and Challenges. Journal of Environment and Earth Science (2017) 7(10): 59-67.
24. Kingsley Appiah, Rhoda A., Oware, K.M., and Yeboah, B. (2021). Economic Growth, Industrialization, Trade, Electricity Production and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Evidence from Ghana. Journal of Economic Science Research, Vol. 04(1).
25. Samuel Afriyie, Jianguo Du, Kingsley Appiah, Abdul-Aziz Ibn Musah. The Nexus between Types of Innovation and Marketing Performance of Small Medium-sized Enterprises in an Emerging Economy. International Review of Management and Marketing, (2018) 8(6): 78-92. https://doi.org/10.32479/irmm.7042
26. Patrick Boateng Sarpong, Jianguo Du, Kingsley Appiah, Thomas Bilaliib Udimal. Concatenating E-Procurement Processes and Health Supply Systems in Ghana to Promote Efficiency: A Critical Review. European Journal of Contemporary Research (2017) 6(1): 255-265.
27. Stephen Owusu Afriyie, Yusheng Kong, Michael Owusu Akomeah, Kingsley Appiah, Patrick Obeng Danso. Application of BCG as a Strategic Planning Tool to Assess the Sustainability and Growth of University Programs in a Competitive Market. American Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (2018) 7(1): 964-973.
28. Ebenezer Ababio Tetteh, Jianguo Du, Kingsley Appiah, Ebenezer Larnyo. Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emission and Global Warming Prevention: Countermeasures for Sub-Saharan African. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development 2018 9(22): 11-16
29. Samuel Afriyie, Jianguo Du, Kingsley Appiah. The effects of the marketing elements on organizational performance influenced by marketing program of adaptation and standardization. IMPACT: International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature 2018 6 (5):31-46
30. Samuel Afriyie, Jianguo Du, Kingsley Appiah. The Role of Marketing Capabilities as a Resource-Based View on Organizational Performance. American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences (2018) 41(1):109-123