Professor and Area Chairperson – Accounting and Finance
Chairperson, Strategic MoUs and Institutional New Initiatives
Chairperson, Online PGDM Programme
Dr. Pinku Paul is MBA, M.Com, PhD. in Business Administration. She is UGC NET qualified. Her research interests are in behavioral finance, working capital management, supply chain finance, ESG and sustainability, e-banking, and value chain. She is involved in teaching subjects such as Management Accounting I and II, Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management, Supply Chain Finance, and Corporate Finance. She has authored several papers which have been published in books, national and international journals of various repute. She has also authored several books and edited books with publishers of repute. She has published case studies in Ivey Publishing, Canada, Sage Business Cases, and The Case Center UK. She has been involved in conducting MDPs and consulting works for companies such as MSTC, FSNL, LIC, and several Open MDPs. She has also worked as a Management Trainer in the World Bank Second India Development Market Place 2007 project. She has guided Ph.D. Scholar. She has been awarded Best Professor in Financial Management in 2015 during the 23rd Business School Affaire & Dewang Mehta National Education Award. She has also received the Best Researcher Award for the years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 at Management Development Institute Murshidabad.
She teaches the core courses Management Accounting-I, II and, Corporate Finance. She also offers the elective Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management and Supply Chain Finance.
Analysis of Financial Statements of the Companies
To study the financial statement of the companies and state their financial health.
Each Academic Group selects its own Industry, chooses three companies from the Industry, and performs financial statement analysis by using tools such as comparative, common size, trend, and ratio analysis.
Fundamental Analysis of a Company, Construction of Portfolio,Evaluation of the performance of the Portfolio
To develop skills to construct a portfolio by understanding the objective of investment and the models of Portfolio construction.
To develop skills to evaluate the performance of the portfolio by using different performance evaluation indexes.
Using Bloomberg for data collection and analysis.
Each Group has been assigned the Project work and they do the project work and make the presentation for the same.
She has conducted MDPs in the areas of Finance for non-Finance professionals, Business Leadership for bank executives, General Management, and Sustainability for organizations such as MSTC, FSNL, LIC, Canara Bank, and others.
Academic Consulting for IIFT Kolkata for the academic session 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-2023, 2024-2025 for the following course:
Training Consultancy
Creating Effective Organization, FSNL Bhilai, ( Co – Trainers Dr. Sunil Giri and, Dr.Paroma Mitra)
Worked as Management Trainer in the World Bank Second India Development Marketplace (IDM) 2007 project on “Capacity Building of Rural Women on Production and Marketing of Cashew Apple Juice” executed by Centre for Management Studies, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.