Dr. Senarathne is a Senior Lecturer attached to the Department of Accounting and Finance. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, he has worked in the stockbroking and margin trading industry in Sri Lanka for seven (07) years. Additionally, he has more than ten (10) years of experience in the accounting and financial services sector, which includes handling correspondence with courts for the liquidation of companies and working in the auditing services industry in Sri Lanka.
Educational Qualifications:
B.Sc. in Human Resource Management (Special), March 2007, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
M.B.A. in Finance, May, 2015, University of Colombo.
Ph.D. in Industrial Economics, October, 2020, Wuhan University of Technology.
Dissertation: “The Role of Firm-specific Information for Functional Efficiency of the Colombo Stock Exchange.”
- Condition of conferral: “Write a novel (i.e. a unique and original script) for the entire scholarly community in such discipline that has never been written before”.
- Discipline: Financial Econometrics
- Area of study: Testing parametric assumptions of OLS – detecting heteroskedastic mixture of error (residuals) distribution.
- Publication: “Testing for Heteroskedastic Mixture of Ordinary Least Squares Errors”, Romanian Journal Economic Forecasting (indexed in SSCI).
- Contribution: Extended Breusch & Pagan, (1979) auxiliary regression based test procedure for detecting heteroskedastic mixture of OLS residuals. A Chi-square test was also proposed.
Professional Qualifications:
- Chartered Management Accountant, October 2016, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of United Kingdom (CIMA –UK).
- Chartered Accountant, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka), August 2010.
- Chartered Global Management Accountant, Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA), October 2016.
Industry Experience:
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- Senior Lecturer, Department of Accounting and Finance, The Open University of
- Sri Lanka, 2024 to present.
- Lecturer (on contract), Department of Marketing Management, The Open University of Sri Lanka, 2022–2023.
- Lecturer/Programme Leader, Colombo Institute of Research and Psychology, 2021–2022.
- Ph.D. Candidate, School of Economics, Wuhan University of Technology, 2017–2020
- Chief Operating Officer, Bansei Securities Finance Ltd- Linseced by SEC, 2014–2017.
- Chief Financial Officer, Navara Securities Pvt Ltd (formerly New World Securities Pvt Ltd –Member of CSE), 2011–2014.
- Head of Finance cum Compliance, SMB Securities (Pvt) Ltd–Member of CSE, 2011.
- Career Break – Volunteering, Auckland, New Zealand, 2010.
- Finance Manager, Media Factory Ltd and Madison Media, 2006 to February 2010.
- Audit Trainee, Audit Supervisor, Audit Manager, H.T. Peiris & Co, Chartered Accountants, 2000–2006.
Teaching Experience:
Introduction to Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, Financial Econometrics, Research Methodology, Marketing Management, Research Project, Seminar in Research (resource person), Personality , Group Behaviour, Leadership, Change Management, Research Methods, Statistics I & II, Dissertation Module, Corporate Finance, Corporate Finance Strategy, Statistics I & II, Dissertation Module, Effects of Change.