About The Finance and Accounting Department

The department has a diverse pool of faculty members with rich industry and academic experience. Faculty members of the department regularly publish research papers in reputable, peer-reviewed national and international journals that are indexed in Scopus and listed in the ABDC. The Faculty members also publish articles on contemporary topics in leading newspapers in India. The major thrust areas in which research activities are being pursued are Corporate Finance, Market Microstructure, Asset Pricing, Capital Markets, Corporate Governance, Behavioural Finance, Commodity Markets, Sustainability, Fintech, ESG, and Cost and Management Accounting. Over the past four years, the department has achieved 4 A-star, 35 A-category, 80 B-category, and 120 C-category publications. It includes 110 publications in Scopus and Web of Science. The department also undertakes various consulting assignments and management development programmes with the public and private sector corporate entities. The department also established a Bloomberg Lab with 12 terminals and has integrated its finance electives' offerings into the Bloomberg data sets. The department has also established a “Centre of Excellence in Banking and Finance” over the years, under the able mentorship of the Honourable Chancellor of IFHE, Padma Vibhushan Dr. C. Rangarajan, a Former Governor of the RBI. The centre is focused on augmenting banking and finance practices in the SAARC region.