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Department of Accounting
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Catherine holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Logistics and a Master's degree in Management Accounting and Business Analytics from Reykjavík University. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from Reykjavík University in 2020. Catherine joined the Accounting department in 2021.
Her research interests are Budgeting, Management Control Systems, and Management Accounting. She has conducted both quantitative and qualitative research.
Recent research projects focus on Management Control Systems changes within the banking system in Iceland, and on Budgeting in private organizations.
She is a member of both the American and European Accounting Association. At CBS, Catherine teaches Cost and Management Accounting to master students and Management Control Systems to Bachelor students.
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Management control systems
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Budgeting
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Management Accounting
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SME’s and Family businesses
- Cost and Management accounting; Master level: MSc ASC
- Management Control systems; Bachelor level; BSc SEM
- Supervision: MSc ASC business projects and master thesis
Bachelor and Master thesis
- Cleary, P., Quinn, M., Rikhardsson, P., Batt, C. (2022) Exploring the links between IT tools, management accounting practices and SME performance: Perceptions of Irish CFOs. Paper accepted at the Accounting, Finance and Governance Review. Listed on AJG 2018 as a 1.
- Rikhardsson, P., Thórisson, K., Bergthorsson, G., Batt, C. (2022). Artificial Intelligence and Auditing in Small and Medium Sized Firms: Expectations and Applications. Article accepted in the AI magazine. Ranked on SJR.
- Batt, C., Rikhardsson, P., & Karlsson, T. (2021). Exploring the Impact of Organizational Context on Budgeting. Corporate Ownership and Control, 18(4), 134-151. https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv18i4art10 Listed on ABDC 2019 as a B.
- Quinn, M., Cleary, P., Batt, C., & Rikhardsson, P. (2021). Accounting and Information Systems in Irish Family SME: Professionalization Effects. Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, 20(3), 454-476. https://doi.org/10.24818/jamis.2021.03004 Listed on AJG 2018 as a 1
- Rikhardsson, P., Rohde, C., Christensen, L., & Batt, C. E. (2021). Management Controls and Crisis: Evidence from the Banking Sector. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(4), 757-785. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-01-2020-4400 Listed on AJG 2018 as a 3
In: AI Magazine, Vol. 43, No. 3, 9.2022, p. 323-336
In: Accounting, Finance & Governance Review, 23.5.2022
In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2021, p. 454-476
In: Corporate Ownership and Control, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2021, p. 134-151
In: Revision & Regnskabsvæsen, Vol. 90, No. 5, 2021, p. 16-29
In: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4, 6.2021, p. 757-785
Reykjavík : Reykjavík University 2020, 251 p.
In: A Research Agenda for Family Business: A Way Ahead for the Field. . ed. /Andrea Calabrò. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2020, p. 247-260 (Elgar Research Agendas)
In: Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2018, p. 161-180
London : Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. CIMA 2016, 11 p. (CIMA Executive Summary Report, No. 1, Vol. 12)
Paper presented at Nordic Accounting Conference 2016, 2016
Frederiksberg : The Nordic Case House 2023, 6 p.
Frederiksberg : The Nordic Case House 2023, 6 p.
Frederiksberg : The Nordic Case House 2023, 2 p.
Budgeting
Management control systems
Management accounting
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