Ekaterina Afanasyeva
PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at the Department of Business Accounting and Finance, Logistics and Management, Vice-dean of the Faculty of Finance and Economics
Ekaterina Afanasyeva
PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at the Department of Business Accounting and Finance, Logistics and Management, Vice-dean of the Faculty of Finance and Economics

Teaching activities
In 2010 successfully graduated from PSU having specialized in “Accounting and Audit in Industry”. In 2011 finished her full-time master’s course at PSU having specialized in “Accounting, Statistics”. Since 2010 worked at the Department of Accounting and Audit at PSU (now the Department of Business Accounting and Finance, Logistics and Management).
She holds an international qualification in financial reporting preparation (ACCA DipIFR, Russian), which enables her to successfully teach courses on consolidation and transformation of financial statements into IFRS format for master's students and participants of educational programmes. She widely employs active teaching methods and prefers to conduct lectures in the form of open dialogue. She regularly enhances her qualifications and has completed an internship at the Belarusian State Economic University (BSEU).
Currently, she teaches the following subjects:
- Theory and practice of business activity analysis
- Organization and financing of investments
- Financial and credit systems of foreign countries
Scientific interests
She defended her PhD dissertation on the accounting and analysis of costs in apiculture.
Currently, she is interested in the methodology of digital accounting and the peculiarities of applying IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) in the Republic of Belarus.
For her research work, she was awarded the title of "Laureate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Prize" and has been appointed a Presidential Scholarship for talented young scientists in the Republic of Belarus.
She serves as the Chair of the Editorial Board of the scientific and practical journal "Vestnik of Polotsk State University (Part D. Economic and Legal Sciences)".
Author's profile of the scientist
Publications
Author of more than 65 scientific and educational-methodical works, including 1 monograph. Selected publications:
- Afanasyeva, K., Malei, A., & Sushko, V. (2025). Analysis of Industrial Waste Management Efficiency as Part of a Sustainable Business Development Strategy. In: Green Economics and Strategies for Business Sustainability. IGI Global Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-8949-2.ch003
- Malei Alena. BUSINESS’S CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AT THE POST-SOVIET AREA: FEATURES OF ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION’S SOCIAL SPHERE /Alena Malei, Katsiaryna Afanasyeva // Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference. - 2021. - May 28th-29th. - Volume VI. – Р. 367-388. - https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2021vol6.6358.
- Afanasyeva, E.Yu. Development of the methodology for analyzing the turnover of receivables and payables / E.Yu. Afanasyeva // International scientific conference on accounting, ISCA 2022 [online] : Collection of scientific articles = Culegere de articole științifice, 11 Edition, April 1-2, 2022. Chişinău : ASEM, 2022. - P. 213-219. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7063845.