14 April 2005
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has announced that Professor Falconer Mitchell will chair its Research Board for a term of two years. Professor Mitchell succeeds Professor Robert H Berry who has retired as Chair of the CIMA Research Board after 16 years.
In addition Professor David Dugdale has been appointed joint Vice Chair for a term of two years and Professor Charles Sutcliffe remains joint Vice Chair.
Professor Roland Kaye, commenting on the appointments, said, 'CIMA is delighted that Professor Mitchell has accepted the Chair of CIMA's Research Board. Professor Mitchell's knowledge through his role as Professor of Management Accounting at the University of Edinburgh will be invaluable to CIMA. Additionally, we are very pleased that we have Professors Sutcliffe and Dugdale as joint Vice Chairs. The combined detailed understanding of management accounting by these three individuals is inestimable.
Since the Research Board's inception in the 1980s, CIMA Research has the specific objective to promote and develop the science of management accounting, as stipulated in our charter. CIMA Research aims to support research that will make a real difference to the work of management accountants worldwide.'
The main responsibility of the Chair, supported by the Vice Chairs, is to review the applications for academic soundness and monitor approved research projects through to completion to ensure that they both:
- develop the science of management accounting, and
- represent value for CIMA.
For further information please contact:
Peter Stanhope, Senior Press Officer, CIMA
020 8849 2347
peter.stanhope@cimaglobal.com
Notes to editors
1. CIMA is the only UK body whose sole focus is on the training and qualifying of accountants in business. It represents financial managers and accountants who work in business. Its key activities are related to Business Strategy, Information Strategy and Finance Strategy. CIMA's focus is to qualify students, support members and employers, and protect the public interest. CIMA represents the voice of over 85,000 students and 65,000 members in 156 countries. CIMA's focus on management functions makes it unique, and it is internationally recognised as offering the financial qualification for business. CIMA works with leading employers in the UK and around the world to train and qualify financial managers. We pride ourselves on the commercial relevance of our syllabus, which is continually enhanced to reflect the latest developments in business. CIMA's members and students work across all business sectors at all levels throughout the world, demonstrating the flexibility of the qualification.
2. Professor Falconer Mitchell is Professor of Management Accounting at the University of Edinburgh where he has worked for the last 30 years. He is a member of the editorial boards of Management Accounting Research and The Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Organisational Change.
3. Professor Charles Sutcliffe has recently been appointed as a Professor of Finance at the University of Reading. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, the Journal of Futures Markets, the European Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Management and Analysis, and a director of USS Ltd.
4. Professor David Dugdale is Professor of Management Accounting at the University of Bristol. He is an Associate Editor of the British Accounting Review and he served on the Research Assessment panel for Accounting and Finance in the UK's 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.
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