Tomas Hjelström - Assistant Professor​

Tomas Hjelström is a graduate from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and is a teacher and researcher at the Department for Accounting & Managerial Finance at SSE. Tomas has been at SSE since 1994 and divides his time between teaching for SSE Executive Education, teaching undergraduates at SSE and doing post-doc research. He has participated in the pedagogical program International Teachers' Programme at New York University (2000).

Keywords: financial accounting, corporate finance, basic financial economics

Tomas' research deals with the premium/discount on closed-end funds, accounting for goodwill and other M&A related accounting issues, implementation of IFRS by the preparers and analyst use and perception of IFRS based financial information. Tomas' fields of teaching are financial accounting and company valuation.

Areas of special interest:
Ownership structure and value, implementation use of IFRS based financial information.