Alnoor Bhimani


Alnoor Bhimani is Professor of Management Accounting, Founding Director of LSE Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is former Head of the Department of Accounting. Bhimani's academic work covers financial controls in the digital economy; management accounting and strategic finance; entrepreneurship and economic growth; and global development and governance issues.

Biography

Bhimani holds a BSc degree in food science and management from King's College London, an MBA from Cornell University where he was a Fulbright Scholar and obtained his PhD from LSE. He is also a Chartered Professional Accountant. Bhimani took up a lectureship in accounting and finance at LSE in 1988 becoming professor from 2006. He headed the Department of Accounting at LSE during 2009-2012 and was Director of from January 2014 until June 2015. He has been a Director of since February 2016.
Bhimani has been a visiting professor at various universities in Europe, North America and Africa. He has taught as a visiting academic at Aalto University, Bocconi University, London Business School, ISCTE, University of Witwatersrand, University of Western Ontario, and York University. He has taught courses in Cost Management; Strategy and Control; Internet Entrepreneurship; E-Business and Financial Management; Corporate Governance and Accountability; Developmental organizational Leadership.
, Helsinki Finland, awarded Professor Bhimani an honorary doctorate in 2016 citing his impact on the research agenda and the orientation of Management Accounting across Europe.

Research and Intellectual Interests

Bhimani has contributed to the development of comparative management accounting as an independent research discipline. He has conducted historical investigations on the emergence of accounting mechanisms indicative of the dependencies between structural accounting controls and cultural shifts over time. His research on accounting determinants of default investigates the role of non-financial information in averting financial crises. He has also investigated issues relating to accounting and digitization, big data and analytics.
His books discuss management accounting research, with particular reference to practical organizational innovations such as activity-based management, target costing, strategic management accounting and budgetary control systems. His co-authored book with Michael Bromwich, entitled Management Accounting: Evolution not Revolution, discusses strategic investment appraisal
Bhimani’s second co-authored book with Bromwich, Management Accounting: Pathways to Progress, talks about problems of maintaining a short-term and internally focused orientation to management accounting information in strong global competition. It has received positive reviews, and considered as ‘rich’ and ‘diverse’ by The Accounting Review.
Another of his books, Strategic Finance: Achieving High Corporate Performance, looks at enterprise management, innovation and digitization.. His book Financial Management for Technology Start-ups, considers the financial and accounting know-how specific to running tech start-ups.

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