Department of Accounting, Auditing and Business Analytics

Ingunn Myrtveit

Head of department Ingunn Myrtveit

The Department of Accounting, Auditing and Business Analytics brings together BI’s academic resources in accounting, auditing, management accounting, business analytics and logistics.

The Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law was split in two in 2015, and the new departments are called Department of Law and Department of Accounting, Auditing and Business Analytics. The two departments continue their close cooperation on the Bachelor programme in Accounting and Auditing, the Master programme in Accounting and Auditing and the specialisation “Business Law, Tax and Accounting” in the MSc in Business.

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The department contributes to research-based teaching and knowledge development at all levels. The department has a heavy teaching load with responsibility for several of the major, compulsory courses in BI’s Bachelor programme. The department also has a large course portfolio at the Master and Executive levels. The department faculty maintain close contacts with business and industry. Teaching as well as research have a distinctly practical focus, and the department is e.g. in charge of many customised courses in BI’s corporate portfolio.

Research in this department relates to Norwegian and international accounting law, intellectual capital, executive compensation, corporate governance, productivity analysis, search technology, transport analysis, humanitarian and environmental logistics.

Several faculty in this department distinguished themselves in the last year:

  • Professor Erlend Kvaal has during the 2014-2016 period led a government-appointed legal committee that has drafted a new accounting law. Associate Professor Tonny Stenheim has been acting as secretary for the committee.
  • Professor John Christian Langli chaired the Appeal Committee for auditors and accountants and was asked to evaluate the scheme that allows small limited companies to opt out of having an auditor.
  • Professor Hanno Roberts was named “Best Professor of MBA 22, 2015” in the BI-Fudan MBA programme.
  • Professor Marianne Jahre is Vice President Communications in POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) at the College for Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management and is also on the editorial board of Journal of Operations Management as a specialist on Humanitarian Operations Management.
  • Associate Professor Janicke Rasmussen is a member of the National Council for Economic Administrative Education, which is one of five national councils under the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions.
  • Senior lecturer Eirill Bø is a member of the reference group for the transport sub-programme "Smart, green and integrated transport" in the EU framework programme Horizon 2020 for the Norwegian Research Council.

Selected publications from 2015:

  • Janicke Rasmussen: "Do Board Evaluations Measure Board Effectiveness? The Case of Large Listed Companies in Norway." International Studies of Management & Organization.
  • Marianne Jahre and Nathalie Fabbe-Costes: "How standards and modularity can improve humanitarian supply chain responsiveness: The case of emergency response units." Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Limei Che and John Christian Langli: "Governance structure and firm performance in private family firms." Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.

Ingunn Myrtveit was appointed head of the new department from 1. August 2015. Myrtveit has been with BI since 1987 and has been a professor of business analytics since 2007.