Keynote Speakers

Jim Haslam

Professor Jim Haslam (University of Sheffield, UK)

Accounting is not all bad: a critical perspective on accounting and its possibilities with some contemporary illustration.

Profile:

Jim Haslam is Professor of Accounting, Governance and Society in the Management School's Division of Accounting and Financial Management and Divisional Director of Research and Impact, Sheffield University Management School. He has over 30 years’ experience in academia. He joined Sheffield from Newcastle University in August, 2015. Before that he has been a Professor at Waikato (New Zealand), Heriot-Watt, Dundee and Durham. Prior to this he was a lecturer at Aston, UCNW and LSE and a senior lecturer at Essex. He has a first class honours degree from Sheffield and is a chartered accountant, working in practice with Ernst and Whinney (now Ernst and Young) 1981-1984. He has a wide range of teaching interests and substantial administrative experience. His research concerns the social analysis of accounting and related control practices and he is currently active in several projects in this area. He is on the editorial board of a number of international accounting journals and in 2003, with Sonja Gallhofer, published the book 'Accounting and Emancipation: Some Critical Interventions'.

Radek Ignatowski

Professor Radek Ignatowski (University of Łódź, Poland)

How far the European financial reporting is close to modern accounting thoughts and international development?

Profile:

Radosław Ignatowski is Professor in Accounting Department at the Management Faculty of the University of Łódź (Poland), Head of the International Accounting Unit at the Department of Accounting, Head of the Centre for International Accounting Studies, Head of the Postgraduate Studies in Accounting and Financial Management, Management Faculty of the University of Łódź. He has over 30 years’ experience in academia. Professor is a co-author of the first Polish translations of Accounting EC Directives and International Accounting Standards, published in 1989-1990 and since 2005 he is an Official Delegate of Polish regulator in accounting (National Standard-Setter) for Cooperation of with IASB. The main interests focus on business combinations, especially in international context, transformations and divisions of companies and group accounts. His research concerns the accounting harmonization and international accounting. He’s an author and co-author of about two hundred scientific and popular published papers, elaborates and books (including Textbooks).

Jan Alpenberg

Professor Jan Alpenberg (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

PhD Workshop - Qualitative research in accounting

Profile:

Jan Alpenberg is a Senior lecturer in Accounting and Finance and the Dean for the Faculty of Accounting and Logistics (Business Law), Linnaeus University. His research is conducted within Centre for Management Accounting Research (CMAR) at Linnaeus University. Jan´s research interests are in the area of management accounting and production management, capital budgeting, entrepreneurship and finance. Recently, his research has been focusing on behavioural aspects of management control and how new management innovations influence the organization and the employees. Jan´s empirical interest is primarily in the area of manufacturing companies, small and medium sized companies and in the healthcare sector. Jan has extensive experience from teaching in the area of business administration and has been teaching both undergraduate and graduate levels at universities in i.e. Belarus, Canada, Poland and Sweden. Recently he has been teaching courses in financial- and management accounting, management control, finance and operations management.