Biography
Dr Sunita Mathur is a Program Director and Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Dr Mathur has over two decades of international teaching and management experience in higher education, teaching in Canada, India, and the UAE.
Besides teaching a wide range of courses at all levels in Accounting and Finance, including undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) courses, she also supervises UG and PG dissertations. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a member of the Certified Professional Accountant- CPA- Australia.
Dr Mathur’s research interest and expertise lie in IFRS and its harmonization and convergence in emerging economies, Regulatory Framework of International Financial Reporting and its conceptual Framework, Internationalization and Harmonization of Financial Reporting, Future of Financial Accounting, Environmental, Social Governance and Reporting, Role of AI in accounting, IFRS standards-IFRS 15, IAS 38, IAS 36, IAS 16 etc.
She received the "Certificate of Excellence" for Best Presentation/ Best Content at the Academicsera International Conference held in Rome, Italy on 25-26 August 2019.
Academic leadership and afilliations:
Dr Sunita Mathur is a Program Director and Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Dubai.
She is also the Chief Examiner (External) at the Emirates Institute of Finance UAE. (a government of UAE undertaking under the patronage of the Central Bank of UAE)
In addition to her academic experience, Dr. Mathur has strong managerial and entrepreneurial skills. She worked as an entrepreneur dealing in uninterruptible power supplies before becoming an academic.
Qualifications:
- 2021: Professional certification; CPA Australia., Awarding body: Certified Public Accountant, CPA Australia
- 2016: PhD (major in Accounting- International Financial Reporting Standards). University Grants Commission, Jagannath University. Jaipur. India
- 1982: MBA: International Business. Institute of Productivity and Management. Kanpur University. Kanpur. India.
- 1982: Master’s in Commerce. Kanpur University. Kanpur. India.
- 1980: Bachelor’s in Commerce Kanpur University
Publications:
Refereed articles:
- MATHUR.S. “Indian Gaap v/s IFRS: Comparability &Consistency” Proficient-International Refereed Journal of Management, Vol.-VI, 54-65, 2014. Senior Author.
- VEL.PRAKASH & MATHUR.S. “Internal Marketing-Clearing the air” Conference of Higher Education Forum, Okinawa, 28 pages, August 2016 has been published in “Internal Journal of Educational Management”- Emerald Publication-ABS ranking 1* in February 2019.
Book Proceedings:
- Ullas. Rao & Sunita. Mathur. 21-22 March 2024 “Climatic Capital Asset Pricing Model: A Theoretical Proposition”. 108th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development – “Financial Literacy for Economic and Social Development” Dubai. UAE. pgs. 254-261– Aveiro.
Books:
- MATHUR.S. “Contemporary Issues in Social Accounting” Goodfellow Publishers Ltd, 11-32 pages, 33- 53 pages. 2017
- JANJUSEVIC J, MATHUR S, “Financing and Budgeting of Events”, in: “Event Management”, chapter, Good fellow, Oxford, 2021
Conferences:
- MATHUR.S. “Street Entrepreneurship-What is in store for the second generation?” International Conference in New Challenges in Management and Business Conference, Dubai, 6 pages, February 2017. Senior Author.
- MATHUR.S. “A study of Indian Street Entrepreneurs serving in Affluent Metro locations and their hopes for their next generation.” Academicsera International Conference, Rome. Italy. 25-26th August 2019. Senior Author. “Awarded for the Best Presentation and Content”