Accounting, reporting, auditing and management control experts

From mergers and taxes to the fine print of IFRS compliance, experts at the Stockholm School of Economics offer insights into how organizations measure, manage, and report value. Below is a list of researchers with areas of specialization.

Emilia Cederberg

Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of expertise:

  • Sustainability reporting, carbon accounting, and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) target-setting
  • How environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are embedded in financial analysis and asset management decisions

Email: emilia.cederberg@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Ting Dong

Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of expertise:

  • Impact of changes in audit regulation on corporate tax planning and tax avoidance behaviors
  • Stock market participation of business school students
    Issues related to the auditing profession, including gender wage gaps and leadership traits

Email: ting.dong@hhs.se
Phone: +46 8 736 93 02; +46 76 793 53 95
Languages: English, Chinese

Irina Gazizova

Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of expertise:

  • Financial reporting and corporate governance, particularly the role of directors’ experience in shaping reporting choices
  • How stakeholders’ demands shape corporate social responsibility

Email: Irina.Gazizova@hhs.se
Phone: +46 8 736 91 36
Languages: English, Russian

Lukas Goretzki

Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of expertise:

  • The evolving role of CFOs, business controllers, and management accountants
  • The impact of digital technologies on management accounting, control processes, and the finance function
  • The role of management control systems in translating and implementing strategies
  • Impact measurement, management, and reporting in non-profit organizations

Email: lukas.goretzki@hhs.se
Languages: English, German

Johan Graaf

Associate Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of expertise:

  • Accounting and financial analysis
  • Financial communication and the enhancement of financial literacy
  • Activities of investor relations professionals, fund managers, and sell-side analysts, including their investment decision-making processes and research methodologies
  • How rankings and performance metrics drive public-sector decision-making

Email: johan.graaf@hhs.se
Phone: +46 8 736 93 14
Languages: English, Swedish

Tomas Hjelström

Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of expertise:

  • Financial reporting and corporate valuation
  • Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
  • Implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and perception of IFRS-based financial information
  • Capital market actors’ behavior

Email: tomas.hjelstrom@hhs.se
Phone: +46 70 324 99 93
Languages: English, Swedish

Kalle Kraus

Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of expertise:

  • Management control systems within public sector organizations, including municipalities and public sector agencies
  • The role of rankings and ratings in society
  • How emotional factors influence risk assessment and decision-making within organizations, especially during crises
  • Complexities of managing control and accountability in inter-organizational settings such as partnerships, joint ventures, and supply chains

Email: kalle.kraus@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Ebba Sjögren

Associate Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of expertise:

  • How accounting systems affect real-world decisions, including how experts use financial and management accounting information
  • How accounting shapes and controls professional activities, with a focus on sectors like healthcare and higher education
  • Pricing and valuation in markets for pharmaceutical treatments, especially in-patient cancer care, including the role of list prices and policy context
  • How the use of health economics shapes decision-making about public pharmaceutical benefits

Email: ebba.sjogren@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Milda Tylaitė

Associate Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of expertise:

  • Firm corporate taxation, tax planning behaviors, and tax avoidance
  • How accounting and tax policy interact with firm incentives
  • Effects of standards like IFRS for SMEs on private firms’ reporting and governance structures
  • IFRS reporting and its informational consequences

Email: milda.tylaite@hhs.se
Phone: +46 8 736 94 75
Languages: English, Swedish