PhD, PGCert HE, MBA (Finance - Gold Medallist), CIA, BCom

• Activity Based Costing
• Measuring Business Performance
• Balanced Scorecard
• Strategic Cost Management
• Supply Chain costing
• Action Research
• Clusters and sustainable development
• Entrepreneurship
• E-Learning and E-Teaching
• Management education

• Strategic Cost Management
• Management Accounting
• Management Control Systems
• Financial Accounting
• Cost Accounting
• Corporate Financial Management
• Investment Management

Publications:

• A period study of short-term performance pressures: Case of the British Biotechnology industry (co-authors: Dr. Angathevar Baskaran, Middlesex University, London, UK and Firoozeh Ghaffari, Middlesex University, London, UK.), Journal The Business Review Cambridge, USA (ISSN 1553-5827, indexed in PROQUEST, CABELL, ULRICH'S database).
• Accounting System of an NGO: A Case of Jagrut Grahak Mandal, (co-author: Dr. Ashwin Modi, S K School of Business Management, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat. INDIA.), Journal The Business Review Cambridge, USA (ISSN 1553-5827, indexed in PROQUEST, CABELL, ULRICH'S database).
• Action research in policy making: a case in the dairy industry in Gujarat, India, (co-authors: Prof. Dhawal Mehta and Dr. Paurav Shukla) A I Society Journal, Springer Verlag London Limited, Vol. 18, No. 4, October 2004, London, UK.
• The Cooks that Spoilt the WorldCom Broth- The WorldCom Accounting Scandal Case Analysis - published in the Case Folio Journal of the ICFAI Press, Hyderabad in August 2003.
• Activity Based Costing for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises; published in Journal of American Academia and Business, USA. July 2003.
• Kelkar Report and Budget 2003-04: Impact on the Investment Climate" - Debate Feature published in ICFAI Reader, published by Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, Hyderabad, INDIA. May 2003.
• Analysis of ethical perceptions of current management practices and circumstantial-self-behaviour among management students (co-author: Dr. Keyoor Purani) published in NMIMS Management Review, published by Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (Deemed University), Mumbai, INDIA. Vol. XIV No.II. July-December 2002.

Professional Membership:

• Association for Accountancy and Business Affairs, UK
• Financial Management Association International, USA
• Association of Indian Management Scholars International, USA
• Management Control Association, UK
• Finance Forum of India, Mumbai, INDIA.

Other:

• Undertaken various corporate training programme and consulting assignments for various organizations.
• Remained Guest Editor, Editorial Board Member to a few international journals.
• Citation in Worldwide Directory of Finance Faculty, Ohio State Department of Finance and the American Finance Association, USA.
• Citation in Directory of Research in Business Performance Measurement, Cranfield Management Research Institute, UK.
• Citation in Directory of Management Educators, Association of Indian Management Scholars International, USA.