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Elina Varoutsa

Dr Elina Varoutsa

Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Cardiff Business School

Email
VaroutsaE@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 70638
Campuses
Aberconway Building, Room R28, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

Overview

Elina (Evangelia) joined Cardiff Business School in 2014. She previously held a lectureship position at Surrey Business School. She holds a PhD in the area of management accounting from the Alliance Management Business School, University of Manchester and a master’s degree from the same university. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Athens University of Economics and Business. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Her research interests, although diverse, lay in the broad area of management control, management accounting and critical accounting. Elina is currently working on projects exploring the risk management practices in the UK financial sector and the accountability to employees in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

 She is currently the Admissions Tutor for the postgraduate Accounting and Finance programmes. Finally, since 2020, Elina is also a Trustee and the Honorary Treasurer at the Management Control Association.

Publication

2024

2022

2020

  • Soin, K., Varoutsa, E. and Taylor, L. 2020. Blurred lines. Enterprise Risk: The official magazine of The Institute of Risk Management Summer, pp. 28-29.

2018

2015

2010

Articles

Book sections

Monographs

Research

Research interests

Management control systems

Management control and risk management

Risk management frameworks in the financial industry

Teaching

Teaching commitments

  • Managenent Accounting and Control of Organizational Performance (PG, co-module leader)
  • Management Accounting and Control (UG, co-module leader)
  • Research Topics in Accounting (PG, contributor)

Prior teaching experience includes:

  • Financial Analysis and Control (MBA); Advance Management Accounting (PG); Accounting for Non-Specialists (PG) Auditing and Assurance (UG); Introduction to Accounting (UG); Intermediate Management Accounting (UG)

Biography

Qualifications

  • PhD in Management Accounting (Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester)
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (The University of Surrey)
  • MSc in Accounting and Finance (Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester)
  • BSc in Business Administration (Athens University of Business and Economics)

Supervisions

Co-Supervisor for Lian Zhong - Competing on digitalization transformation: the relation between enterprise resource planning, management control systems and dynamic capabilities.