On 1 June 2011, Dr P.M.G. van Veen-Dirks RC will be appointed professor of Management Accounting at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Groningen.
Management accounting is a field focusing on collecting and analysing internal financial and other information that managers in organizations base their decisions on and use to coordinate and manage activities.
In order to deliver the proper information in the required manner, it is necessary to understand how managers use accounting information or could do so.
With this understanding, management accountants and controllers can serve as partners to management in decision-making and when organizational strategy is being formulated and implemented.
Van Veen-Dirks’s academic interest concerns the design and use of management control systems and various types and instruments of performance management.
She is specialized in the relationship between strategy and performance measurement, in innovation and changes in management accounting and in the implementation of management control systems within a specific organizational or interorganizational context.
Curriculum Vitae
Paula van Veen-Dirks (Enschede, 1967) studied Industrial Engineering and Management at Eindhoven University of Technology.
She then completed the Executive Master of Finance and Control at Maastricht University.
She conducted her doctoral research at Tilburg University and was awarded a PhD in 2002 for her thesis entitled ‘Flexibility and control: an empirical study relating production flexibility to the design of performance management systems’.
In 2006 she was appointed associate professor of Accounting and Control at Radboud University Nijmegen.
In June 2011, Van Veen-Dirks will join the Accounting department of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Groningen as a professor.
