Congratulations to Per Åhblom who on June 8th successfully defended his thesis: "The Financial Performance - A study of how financial numbers become meaningful."

Torkel Strömsten has received 2.5 MSEK from Jan Wallander & Tom Hedelius Foundation for further development of the Research School in Accounting, FIRE. Co-applicants were Bino Catasús (Stockholm University), Johnny Lind (Stockholm School of Economics) and Fredrik Nilsson (Uppsala University).

Christoph Schneider, PhD student at the Department of Accounting and member of the Stockholm School of Economics Institute for Research (SIR), has received a research grant from the Torsten Söderberg’s Foundation for his project “Open Book Accounting in capital equipment sales” (“Öppna kalkyler vid försäljning av kapitalutrustning”). The research grant, worth 410,000 SEK, allows him to finalise his PhD thesis during 2017. Congratulations, Christoph!