Padmini Srinivasan

Padmini Srinivasan has varied professional interests in teaching, research and consulting in the areas of Financial Reporting, Management Accounting, Corporate Governance and accountability. Prior to joining IIMB, she worked in the industry for more than 14 years in various positions in Treasury, Planning, MIS and Accounting. She is also a special invitee to the Accounting standards Board of ICAI.

Research

Her research interests are in the areas of Corporate governance and accountability, Corporate reporting and disclosures, Value relevance of accounting numbers and Management Education

Her recent research work are as follows:

• Srinivasan P and Srinivasan R (2015) “Narrative Analysis of Annual Reports - A Study of Communication Efficiency” IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 486
• Srinivasan Padmini, (2013), “ An Analysis of Related Party Transactions in India”, IIM Bangalore Research paper No. 402
• Srinivasan P and Narasimhan M.S., (2012) The Value Relevance of Consolidated Financial Statements in an Emerging Market: The Case of India" Asian Review of Accounting, Vol 20(1) pages 58-73
• Srinivasan, P., Srinivasan, V., & RV, Anand. (2012), “Status of Ethics, Corporate Governance, CSR and Environment Education in Business Schools in India: An Exploratory Study”, IIM Bangalore Research Paper, No: 362
• Srinivasan P, “Now you see it, now you do not: The case of Jet Airways and its accounting policies” 2011, IIMB Case through Harvard Business Publishing
• Srinivasan P and Narasimhan M.S. (2008), “An Analysis of Consolidated and Parent-only Financial Statements of Indian Companies, The Indian Journal of Accounting Research and Audit Practices, Vol. 7(3), 27-42

Teaching

As a full time Faculty she teaches Financial Reporting and Analysis, Corporate Governance and ethics, Management Accounting, and Corporate tax management in the Post Graduate Programs. Her teaching career includes in institutions including at the IIITB and National Law School of India, Bangalore. She was a visiting faculty at the University of Exeter Business School, UK

Consulting

She has designed and conducted programs for Executive Education including ‘Finance for Non-finance Executives’ for a number of companies. Sessions in these programs covered Financial Statement Analysis, IFRS, Working Capital Management, Cost Management and other Finance related topics including Equity Valuation .

She has also designed and conducted programs on ‘Corporate Governance’ and Compliance for Senior Management and at the Board level.

Professor Srinivasan has been consultant to many organizations and has experience in the areas of design and implementation of management information systems and, design of cost accounting and other corporate accounting systems. She was a member of the consulting team for the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) for their Bangalore Infrastructure Project.

Education

• PhD, National Law School of India University, Bangalore
• Company Secretary, Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India
• Chartered Accountant, Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
• BCom, R.A. Podar College, Bombay University, India