• The Department of Finance and Accounting came into existence in 1995. The department is a part of IBS Hyderabad, the Faculty of Management of the University. Currently, the department has sixty faculty members involved in teaching, research and administration.
• Forty seven of these are Ph.D holders.

Teaching

• The department offers courses in BBA, MBA, and PhD in Management Programs of the Business School.
• Members of the department also academically contribute to the Management Development Programs of the Centre for Management Development of the Business School.

Research and Publications

• The major thrust areas in which research activities are being pursued are, Dynamics of Equity, Commodity, and Derivative Markets, Insider Trading and Market Efficiency, Corporate Governance, Price Discovery Process in Equity and Commodity markets, Microfinance, Financial Inclusion, Islamic Finance, Sustainable Finance, FinTech, Financial Regulation and Liberalization, Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Structure Decisions, Financial Risk Management, Basel norms, Electricity market, Tunneling in Business Groups, Intellectual Capital and Firm Valuation, Mutual Funds, Dividend Policy, etc.
• Faculty members of the department have published research papers in reputed peer reviewed National and International journals such as Energy Economics, Transportation research: Policy and Practice, Applied Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, International Journal of Production Research, Emerging Markets Review, Economics Letters, International Journal of Managerial Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, The World economy etc .
• Besides, the faculty members have published many books and chapters/articles in original/edited books, conference proceedings etc.
• The Department brings out three peer-reviewed journals titled IUP Journal of Applied Finance, IUP Journal of Accounting Research and Audit Practices and IUP Journal of Financial risk Management
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