About Us

Teaching Interest/ Subject Specialisation:

Managerial Accounting

Project Appraisal & Finance

Financial Management

International Financial Management

Equity Market Analysis

Bond Market Analysis

Cost Management Strategies

Research Interests:

Policy-based research on International Trade

Research Projects Undertaken:

Purchasing Power Parity between the Rupee and the Rouble Impact of Import Liberalization on Exports

Analysis of Indian Trade Policy vis-à-vis other

Developing countries including South East Asia

Indo-Sri Lanka Trade Cooperation

Trade Reform Experiences in Select Developing Countries

Indian Exports – Recent Trends and Analysis

Export Potential Survey of Select Items from Punjab

Export and Management Capabilities in Select Sectors of the Garments Industry in India

Policy Impediments to Trade and FDI in India – a USAID study; a comparative assessment made with policies in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

Exports of Small Scale Products to Five Select Countries – Germany, Vietnam, Iran, Egypt and Libya.

Training Module on Trade in Environmental Services and Human Development – A UNDP Assignment

Books

Published the book `Cost of Capital and Corporate Policy (with special reference to the influence of accounting information on prices), Anupam Publishing, 1990

Published the book `Policy Impediments to Trade and FDI in India’ (co-authored with Prof. B. Bhattacharyya), Wheeler Publishing, 1996

Occasional Papers

Occasional Paper 2 1996: Foreign Direct Investment: Facts and Issues (co-authored with Prof. B. Bhattacharyya)

Occasional Paper 4 1996: Towards Economic Integration through Regional Trade Blocs (co-authored with Prof. H.L. Sharma)

Occasional Paper 1997: Indian Garments Industry in the Post-MFA Period

Papers in edited books

Contributed a paper on: `The Service Economy in China’ in the book `China’s External Trade since the Reforms’ (edited by Bibek Debroy), Commonwealth Publishers, 1991

Contributed a paper on :`Globalisation of the Financial System and Services’ in the book `Global and Indian Trade Policy Changes (edited by Bibek Debroy), Anupama Publications, 1992

Contributed a paper on : `Subsidies and International Trade in Agriculture’ in the book `World Trade Organisation and India’ (edited by Dr K.R. Gupta), Atlantic Publishers, 1996

Contributed a paper on: `Financial Market Integration and Exchange Rate Policy – A Survey of Some Key Issues’ in the book `Global Economic Challenges in the New Millennium’ (IIFT Publication), 1997

Contributed a paper on: `Market Prospects for Dried Fruits and Vegetables’ in the book `Global Competitiveness of Indian Industry, a joint publication of IIFT and BICP, 1998

Papers in professional journals

Contributed a paper on: `Gearing the Indian Economy for Growth & Exports – Problems Facing India in the journal `Management and Labour Studies (XLRI Publication), October 1997

Contributed a paper on : `Building Managerial Skills in the Globalised Environment’ in the journal - JIMS 8M, Oct-Dec 1996

Contributed a Paper on : `Financial Reforms and Export Growth – Selected South-Asian Countries’, Foreign Trade Review, Jan-March 1991

Contributed a paper on :`Globalisation of the Financial System and Services’ in the book `Global and Indian Trade Policy Changes (edited by Bibek Debroy), Anupama Publications, 1992

Contributed a paper on: `Subsidies and International Trade in Agriculture’ in the book `Trade in Agriculture – The Uruguay Round & After (IIFT Publication), 1994

Contributed a paper on: `The Soyabean Market – World Situation and Prospects for India’ (co-authored with Prof. H.L. Sharma) in the journal Foreign Trade Review, July-December 1995

Contributed a paper on: `Use of On-Line Database in Promoting Exports – A Case Study of the US Market in the book `On-Line Databases in International Trade Promotion (IIFT Publication), 1996

Contributed a paper on : `Agricultural Credit - Domestic and International Perspectives’ in the book `Promotion of Agricultural Exports – Role of Financial Institutions’, a joint publication of IIFT and NABARD, 1997

Contributed a paper on : `Perspectives on Indian Agriculture (including allied activities and select primary manufactures) in the journal Foreign Trade Review, Jan-March 1998

Contributed a paper on: `Trade Liberalisation and Diversification in Select Developing Countries’ in the journal Foreign Trade Review, 2000

Contributed a Paper on: `Macroeconomic Stimulation to Growth of Small Enterprises – A Case of Kazakhstan’ in Seminar Proceedings – TTI 2002 Conference on Competing in the Knowledge Economy held at Birmingham, UK from 10-12 July, 2002

Contributed a Paper on ‘Valuation of Intangible Assets – A Perspective’ published in Proceedings of the National Workshop on Valuation of Intangibles in Technology Intensive Industries (paper presented at the Workshop in March 2003 at IIFT)

Contributed a Paper on `Corporate Governance and Economic Development in Africa’ published in Siddhant, Regional College of Management, Bhubaneshwar, Volume 3, No 4, October-December 2003

Contributed a Paper on `COMESA – A Region of Opportunities’ in a special issue on COMESA brought out by the East African Society, November 2004

Published a Paper on ‘Financial Supply Chains’ in LEATHERS – a publication of Council for Leather Exports, 2008

Published a Paper on ‘Is India Ready for IFRS?’ in LEATHERS – a publication of Council for Leather Exports, Jan 2010

Published a paper on ‘Role of E-Pharmacy in Reducing Accessibility Dispersion Between Indian States’, Indian Journal of Applied Research, January 2012

Published a Paper on ‘Private Company Accounting Drivers in Asia’ in Global Business Review (international journal from Singapore), Vol 2, No 2, Dec 2012

Published a Paper on ‘Rejuvenating Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Asia’, published in International Journal of Computers and Technology (international journal from USA), March 2013

Published a Paper on ‘Need for Greater Regulation of Non-GAAP/Non-IFRS Information’, Basic Research Journal of Business Management and Accounting, Vol 2 (5), pp 42-45, December 2013

Book Reviews

Book Review in Foreign Trade Review: V.R. Panchmukhi, R.G. Nambiar, Rajesh Mehta, G.A. Tadas and S.K. Mohanty – Complementarity in Trade and Production, Sage Publications, 1994

Book Review in Foreign Trade Review: P.G. Apte – International Financial Management, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company, 1995

Book Review in Foreign Trade Review: Alan C. Shapiro – Multinational Financial Management, Prentice Hall of India, 1995

Book Review in Foreign Trade Review: Narendra Jadhav (ed), Challenges to Indian Banking – Competition, Globalisation and Financial Markets, Macmillan India Ltd, 1996

Book Review in Foreign Trade Review: R.N. Joshi – Cash Management, 1997

Book Review in Foreign Trade Review: Dr. S. Rathore – International Accounting, 1997

Book Review in Foreign Trade Review: T.K. Velayudham – Foreign Trade – Theory and Practice, Wheeler Publishing, 1998

Book Review in Foreign Trade Review: Barry Herman & Krishnan Sharma (editors) – International Finance and Developing Countries in a Year of Crisis, 1999

Awarded the Certificate in Trade Finance by United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) after regular assessment and evaluation.

Successfully renewed the status of Project Management Professional (PMP) in 2008. Renewal Certification awarded by the Project Management Institute of USA

Undertook a two-week Capacity Development Programme in 2008 on COMFAR – Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting at UNIDO, Vienna

As Chairperson Graduate Studies – Coordinating the Training Programmes of the Institute which include MBA (International Business)

Project Guide on different topics as part of MBA curriculum

Published an Article on ‘The Central Theme of Sand Mining’ in Hindu Business Line newspaper, August 10, 2013