Accounting and Control Department

Head: Albert Fernández

Developing future leaders in effective measurement and reporting of business activities – vital to operative and strategic decision-making – is at the core of our Accounting and Control Department’s mission.

Effectively communicating an organization’s economic activities has a vital impact on internal decisions made by management teams, and on external decisions made by investors and stakeholders. The department’s faculty educates managers not only in accounting methods and principles, but also in understanding how accounting helps them in their stewardship responsibilities within a firm.

Coursework includes Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Corporate Financial Reporting, Fundamental Analysis, Management Control and International Financial Statements Analysis.

Through their research, the department’s faculty is bringing the most recent and influential ideas in accounting and control to the business community. Some of the findings have been published in prestigious journals such as The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies and The Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Seminars.

  • Zanh BOZANIC (October 2018)
    The Ohio State University
  • Katharina HOMBACH (October 2018)
    Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
  • Aytekin ERTAN (November 2018)
    London Business School
  • Delphine SAMUELS (November 2018)
    MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Mark DEFOND (March 2019)
    University of Southern California
  • Pepa KRAFT (March 2019)
    HEC Paris
  • Alastair LAWRENCE (March 2019)
    London Business School
  • Sharon KATZ (April 2019)
    INSEAD
  • Joanna WU (May 2019)
    University of Rochester
  • Hans CHRISTENSEN (June 2019)
    The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  • Eric SO (October 2017)
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Gil SADKA (November 2017)
    Naveen Jindal School of Management – The University of Texas at Dallas
  • Holger DASKE (November 2017)
    University of Mannheim
  • Steven MONAHAN (November 2017)
    INSEAD Business School
  • Ulf BRÜGGEMANN (December 2017)
    HU Berlin
  • Wenjiao CAO (January 2018)
    Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
  • Alper DARENDELI (January 2018)
    London Business School
  • Erik JOHANNESSON (January 2018)
    Columbia Business School
  • Sarah KRÖCHERT (February 2018)
    Humboldt University of Berlin
  • Thomas RAUTER (February 2018)
    Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • Oleg KIRIUKIN (February 2018)
    The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
  • Haresh SAPRA (February 2018)
    The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
  • Jessica KIM-GINA (February 2018)
    The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  • Partha MOHANRAM (March 2018)
    Rotman School of Management University of Toronto
  • Christian LEUZ (April 2018)
    The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  • Maximilian MUELLER (May 2018)
    WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
  • Eddie RIEDL (May 2018)
    Boston University Questrom School of Business
  • Shiva RAJGOPAL (June 2018)
    Columbia Business School
  • Yun LOU (June 2018)
    Singapore Management University
  • Shivakumar LAKSHMANAN (October 2016)
    London Business School
    “Do Compensation Disclosures Matter for SoP Voting?”
  • Irem TUNA (November 2016)
    London Business School
    “Foreign versus Domestic Corporate Investment Decisions”
  • Omri EVEN-TOV (March 2017)
    Berkeley Haas School of Business
    “What Explains Acquisition Premiums and Why do Targets Reject Offers? – Evidence from Failed Acquisition Offers”
  • Colleen HONIGSBERG (May 2017)
    Stanford Law School
    “What Happens when Loans Become Legally Void? Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
  • Stefan REICHELSTEIN (May 2017)
    Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
    “Relating Product Prices to Long-Run Marginal Cost: Evidence from Solar Photovoltaic Modules“
  • Sugata ROYCHOWDHURY (June 2017)
    Carroll School of Management, Boston College
    “Does Litigation Encourage or Deter Real Earnings Management?”
  • Reuven LEHAVY (September 2015)
    University of Michigan
    “Analyst Information Discovery and Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach”
  • Mark WOUTERS (October 2015)
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    “Using Customer Value Propositions to Guide Technology Commercialization”
  • Catherine SCHRAND (October 2015)
    University of Pennsylvania
    “Do Managers Tacitly Collude to Withhold Industry-Wide Bad News?”
  • Carlos CORONA (December 2015)
    Carnegie Mellon University
    “Banks’ Voluntary Adoption of Fair Value Accounting, Procyclical Investment, and Capital Requirement”
  • Xanthi GKOUGKOUSI (April 2016)
    Nova School of Business and Economics
    “Information Content of Aggregate Loan Loss Provisions”
  • Jonas HEESE (May 2016)
    Harvard Business School
    “Politically Connected Firms and SEC Comment Letters”

Head.

Albert Fernández

Albert Fernández

Professor

Accounting and Control and Entrepreneurship

Full time.

Marc Badia

Marc Badia

Professor

Accounting and Control
Pietro Bonetti

Pietro Bonetti

Associate Professor

Accounting and Control
Miguel Duro

Miguel Duro

Professor

Accounting and Control
Mª Jesús Grandes

Mª Jesús Grandes

Professor

Accounting and Control
Martin Jacob

Martin Jacob

Professor

Accounting and Control
Igor Kadach

Igor Kadach

Associate Professor

Accounting and Control
Germán López Espinosa

Germán López Espinosa

Professor
Joint Appointment

Accounting and Control
Gaizka Ormazabal

Gaizka Ormazabal

Professor

Accounting and Control
Luis Palencia

Luis Palencia

Professor

Accounting and Control and Analysis of Business Problems
Fernando Peñalva

Fernando Peñalva

Professor

Accounting and Control
Robert Raney

Robert Raney

Assistant Professor

Accounting and Control
Edi Soler

Edi Soler

Senior Lecturer

Accounting and Control and Analysis of Business Problems
Eric Weber

Eric Weber

Professor

Accounting and Control

Emeritus.

Josep Maria Rosanas

Josep Maria Rosanas

Emeritus Professor

Accounting and Control
Juan Carlos Vázquez-Dodero

Juan Carlos Vázquez-Dodero

Emeritus Professor

Accounting and Control and Business Ethics
Manuel Velilla

Manuel Velilla

Emeritus Professor

Accounting and Control, and Analysis of Business Problems

External collaborators.

Marcos Citeli

Marcos Citeli

Lecturer

Accounting and Control
Pablo Regent

Pablo Regent

Affiliated Lecturer

Accounting and Control
Pau Sansa

Pau Sansa

Lecturer

Accounting and Control
Nuria Villaescusa

Nuria Villaescusa

Senior Lecturer

Accounting and Control

Former collaborators.

Hillel M. Maximon

Hillel M. Maximon

Former Collaborator

Accounting and Control

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

DE VITO, A., HILLMANN, L., JACOB, M., VOSSEBÜRGER, R. (2025). Do personal income taxes affect corporate tax-motivated profit shifting? Journal of Accounting and Economics. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4064766. (Forthcoming) DE VITO, A., JACOB, M., SCHINDLER, D., XU, G. (2025). How do corporate tax hikes affect investment allocation within multinationals? Review of Finance. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3643481. (Forthcoming) HILLMANN, L., JACOB, M. (2024). The Effect of limited tax loss carryforwards on corporate investment. Journal of Accounting and Economics. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4174990. (Forthcoming)

Working Papers

BONETTI, P., LEUZ, C., MICHELON, G. (2024). Internalizing Externalities through Public Pressure: Transparency Regulation for Fracking, Drilling Activity and Water Quality. BONETTI, P., EN, Y., KADACH, I., ORMAZABAL, G. (2024). Climate disclosures and decarbonization along the supply chain. DAI, J., ORMAZABAL, G., PEÑALVA, F., RANEY, R. (2024). Imposing sustainability disclosure on investors. Does it lead to portfolio decarbonization?

Outreach Articles

JACOB, M., BARDT, H., CHRISTOFZIK, D. I., MEYER, D., JUNKERNHEINRICH, M., ÜBELMESSER, S., DORN, F., ... SCHLEPPER, M. (2023). Haushaltspolitik im Zeichen der »Zeitenwende« – auf was müssen wir zugunsten der Verteidigung verzichten? Ifo Schnelldienst, 76 (7), 1-31. ANDRES, C., JACOB, M., ULRICH, L. (2019). Takeover protection and firm value. Review of Law and Economics, 15 (1), 1-46. doi:10.1515/rle-2018-0048. ROSANAS, J. M. (2017). Consistent Decisions, Trust and Being Mindful of Consequences. Juan A. Pérez López: The View from 2016. Alumni Magazine (144), pp. 28 - 31.

Books

PEREIRA, F., GRANDES, M. J. (2016). Dirección y Contabilidad Financiera. Barañáin: EUNSA. Ediciones Universidad de Navarra. ROSANAS, J. M. (2013). Decision-Making in an Organizational Context. Beyond Economic Criteria. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan. PEREIRA, F., ROSANAS, J. M., BALLARÍN FREDES, E., GRANDES, M. J. (2011). Contabilidad para dirección. Barañáin: EUNSA. Ediciones Universidad de Navarra.

Edited books

DÁVILA, A., EPSTEIN, M. J., SHELTON, R. (2006). The creative enterprise: Managing innovative organizations and people: Strategy. London: Praeger Publishers. DÁVILA, A., EPSTEIN, M. J., SHELTON, R. (2006). The creative enterprise: Managing innovative organizations and people: Execution. London: Praeger Publishers. DÁVILA, A., EPSTEIN, M. J., SHELTON, R. (2006). The creative enterprise: Managing innovative organizations and people: Culture. London: Praeger Publishers.

Book Chapters

ORMAZABAL, G., FITÉ, R. M. (2024). Ver, contar y hacer crecer el valor. En Fité, R.M.; Nueno, P.; Mehta, K. and Vilà, J. (Eds.), Primero las personas: pensamiento emprendedor para resolver problemas empresariales (pp. 257-269). Barcelona: Gestión 2000. VILLAESCUSA, N. (2022). The fraud triangle. Assessing fraud risk. In Suleman Sherali Kamwani; Elisabete S. Vieira ; Mara Madaleno and Graça Azevedo (Ed.), Handbook of research on the significance of forensic accounting techniques in corporate governance. Hershey, PA: Igi Global. PEÑALVA, F., WAGENHOFER, A. (2021). Conservatism in debt contracting. Theory and empirical evidence. In Clatworthy, Mark ; García Lara, Juan Manuel; Lee, Edward. (Eds.), Accounting and debt markets: four pieces on the role of accounting information in debt markets. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge.

Studies

JACOB, M. (2020). Did the Changes in 3:12 Rules Foster Entrepreneurship? – Empirical Evidence and Discussion of Alternatives. Report to the Committee on Equality. WEBER, E., ARIÑO, M. A., TORT-MARTORELL, P., PUIGFERRAT, R., COLL, C., IESE (2016). Business Barometer Back to Basics 2016. ALSTADSÆTER, A., JACOB, M., VEJSIU, A. (2014). 3:12 corporations in Sweden. The effects of the 2006 tax reform on investments, job creation, and business start-ups.

Cases

BONETTI, P., DOZ MURILLO, L. (2024). Inditex - Residual income valuation. IESE, C-823-E. FERNÁNDEZ, A. (2024). Corusa. IESE, C-821-E. FERNÁNDEZ, A. (2024). Corusa. IESE, C-821.

Technical Notes

SOLER, E., DURO, M., COBO, E. (2023). Sacando partido a la auditoría de cuentas anuales. IESE, CN-244. SOLER, E., DURO, M., COBO, E. (2023). Getting the most out of a financial statement audit. IESE, CN-244-E. DURO, M. (2023). How to Analyze an Annual Report. IESE, CN-245-E.

Outputs in other media

FERNÁNDEZ, A. (2020). Desinformados, pero aplaudiendo. El Español, Madrid. FERNÁNDEZ, A. (2019). Pasó el tren y se llevó a uno de los mejores. ABC, Barcelona. ROSANAS, J. M., ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2018). Entender el contexto. La principal característica de un buen académico es la curiosidad: querer conocer las cosas y entenderlas. IESE Insight.