Biosketch

Dr. Himanshu is an Assistant Professor (Finance and Accounting) in the Department of Management Studies at Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, Uttarakhand. He is a member of the British Accounting & Finance Association (BAFA), the American Accounting Association (AAA) and Life-time member of Indian Commerce Association. He has been a member of the Academy for Global Business Advancement. He has chaired the session in the International Conference of the British Finance Association. He has published research papers in reputed journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC list and SJR-Q1/Q2. Besides, he also serves as the reviewer of top-tier journals published by Wiley, Emerald, Sage, Springer, and Elsevier. He has presented papers at national and international conferences at institutions of national repute, including BAFA’s Conference in London, AAA’s Conference in USA, Taylors’ University of Malaysia, International Conference at IITs and IIMs, India. He was awarded a Best Paper Award in 15th International Conference on Business and Finance by IBS Hyderabad in the year 2022, and was also awarded NET-JRF by the UGC in Commerce & Management Stream in 2016 and 2019 respectively. He holds the degree of M.Com. and B.Com. (Hons.) from University of Delhi. He has served as an Assistant Professor, appointed by MPPSC & UPPSC and a Credit Officer appointed by Bank of India.

Areas of Interest

His areas of interests include Fair Value Reporting, Earnings Management, Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance, FinTech, Banking, Fraud Risk Assessment, Behavioural Finance, and Investment Management.

Association with Professional Bodies

1.Member of British Accounting and Finance Association.

2. Member of American Accounting Association

3. Life Member of Indian Commerce Association (ICA)

4. Member of Academy for Global Business Advancement

List of Publications

1. Himanshu, R., & Kishor, N. (2023). Modeling of factors affecting investment behavior during the pandemic: a grey-DEMATEL approach. Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 28(2), 222-235 (Springer Publisher, ABDC, Scopus and Web of Science indexed, SJR Impact factor (2022 & 2023): 5.121, Q2).

2.Himanshu & Singh, J. P. (2022). Has Ind-AS adoption affected earnings management in India? Journal of Public Affairs. 22(4), e2620, 1-9 (Wiley Publisher, SJR 2022 & 2023: Q1, ABDC, Scopus and Web of Science indexed, Impact factor (2022): 2.6).

3. Himanshu, R., Mushir, N. & Suryavanshi, R. (2021). Impact of COVID‐19 on portfolio allocation decisions of individual investors. Journal of Public Affairs, 21(4), e2649, 1-9 (Wiley Publisher, SJR 2022 & 2023: Q1, ABDC, Scopus and Web of Science indexed, Impact factor (2022): 2.6).

4. Himanshu, Singh, J. P., & Kumar, A. (2020). Prioritizing and establishing cause and effect relationships among financial reporting quality metrics. Vision-The Journal of Business Perspective, 24(3), 330-344 (Sage Publisher, ABDC, Scopus and Web of Science indexed, Impact Factor: 2.8).

5. Himanshu, Pramahender, & Kandpal, V. (2020). Determining interlinkages between the measures of financial literacy: An MCDM approach. Journal of Public Affairs, 21(2), 1-8 (Wiley Publisher, SJR 2022 & 2023: Q1, ​​​ABDC, Scopus and Web of Science indexed, Impact factor (2022): 2.6).

6. Himanshu, Manda, S. & Bansal, S. K. (2020). Evaluation of recent corporate tax reduction in India using MCDM approach. Journal of Public Affairs, 20(4), 1-7 (Wiley Publisher, SJR 2022 & 2023: Q1, ​​ABDC, Scopus and Web of Science indexed, Impact factor (2022): 2.6).

7. Himanshu & Singh, J. P. (2022). Perceptions of accounting quality in the new IFRS framework: An empirical study, International Journal of Business Excellence, 26(3), 342-369. (Inderscience Publisher, Scopus indexed).

8. Himanshu, Jyoti, G., & Khanna, A. (2021). Empirical evidence on the causal relationships between COVID-19 and sustainability: A DEMATEL Approach, International Journal of Business Excellence (Inderscience Publisher, Scopus indexed). Forthcoming. DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2021.10043830

List of Conferences

•  (Best Paper Award) Paper entitled “Do the covid pandemic and the external auditors influence earnings manipulation: Evidence from India” presented at the 15 International Conference on Business and Finance, IBS Hyderabad (January 27-29, 2022).

•    Paper entitled “Carbon performance, corporate governance and firm performance: International evidence” presented at the British Accounting and Finance Association - Joint Annual Conference of the Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing SIG and Northern Area group, BAFA (January 13-14, 2022).

•    Paper entitled “Do Ind-AS adoption and audit quality affect earnings management? presented at the British Accounting and Finance Association 2021 Annual Conference with Doctoral Masterclasses, BAFA (9, 12–13 April 2021).

•    Paper entitled “Effect of IFRS and audit opinion on earnings quality: An emerging market perspective” presented at the Eighth International Conference of the Journal of International Accounting Research, American Accounting Association (June 23-25, 2021).

•    Paper entitled “Effect of Covid pandemic and size of auditors on earnings quality: An international investigation” presented at the BLM2-ICAM4: An International Joint Conference, Taylor’s University, Malaysia (September, 11, 2021).

•    Paper entitled “Metrics for accounting quality: A fair-value perspective” presented at the XXII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIM Kozhikode, India (December 20-22, 2018).

•    Paper entitled “Hedge accounting from the perspective of risk management and decision-making” presented at the 1st PAN IIT International Management Conference, IIT Roorkee, India (November 30-December 02, 2018).

•    Paper entitled “Applying DEMATEL to examine causal relationships among financial literacy measures” (co-authored) presented at the 7th PAN IIM World Management (International) Conference, IIM Rohtak, India (December 12-14, 2019).

•    Paper entitled “NPAs in Indian public sector banks: Issues and challenges” (co-authored) presented at the AGBA’s 16th World Congress (International Conference), IIT Delhi, India (July 02-04, 2019).

List of Workshops

•    Participated in a one-week FDP on “Moodle learning management system” organized by IIT Bombay, India.

•    Participated in a workshop on “Developing your research career: An editor’s perspective” organized by Emerald publishing.

•    Participated in a workshop on “Fundamentals of Publishing in Top Journals” conducted by Elsevier publishing.

•    Participated in a webinar on “The Humanities & Social Sciences: critical to our understanding of today's complex and challenging world” organized by Springer Nature

•    Participated in a workshop on “Mapping your dissertations” organized by Sage publishing

•    Participated in a workshop on “Write a publication-ready manuscript and get closer to acceptance” organised by Wiley publishing 

•    Participated in a workshop on “Publishing in academic journals: An author’s workshop” jointly organized by Taylor & Francis publishing

Awards & Honours

1. Best Paper Award in 15th International Conference on Business and Finance by IBS Hyderabad

2.  Awardee of Junior and Senior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India.

3. Merit holder in M.Com.

Certified Courses

•    Certificate course on “Introduction to Sustainable Finance” designed by United Nations (UN CC: Learn).

•    7-days certificate course/FDP on “Ind-AS” jointly organised by Ramanujan College (University of Delhi) and Indian Accounting Association, NCR Chapter

•    Certificate course on “IND-AS Beginners-I” jointly organised by Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi) and Indian Accounting Association, Delhi Chapter