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Torbjörn Tagesson

Professor

Torbjörn Tagesson is professor of accounting. His research focuses on accounting and auditing in both the private and the public sector.

Accounting as the main theme

Torbjörn Tagesson is Professor of Accounting. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Lund University, Sweden in 2002 with a dissertation on Cost Accounting as the Basis for Benchmarking and Pricing. Today Torbjörn divides his time between research and teaching at 91ÊÓÆµ, where he became a professor in 2012, and work as Executive Director at the Swedish Council for Municipal Accounting.

Teaching in accounting

Professor Tagesson teaches academic courses att both basic, advanced and post-graduate level. He also supervises graduate students in the fields of accounting and auditing.

Research in accounting, auditing and governance

Professor Tagesson's interest in research focuses on the areas of accounting, auditing and governance. Empirically, he is interested in both the private and the public sectors. A large part of Torbjörn's research focuses on how institutional and economic factors affect different accounting choices. It may be a matter of application and compliance of standards and regulation, but also questions about extent and content of voluntary disclosures.

Brief facts

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Assignments outside the academy

  • Torbjörn is since 2003 member of the Council for Municipal Accounting’s expert panel and since 2008 he is the Executive Director.
  • He was appointed as an expert at the latest revision of Municipal Accounting Act, SOU 2016:24 (KomRed).
  • Member of the Swedish Association of Professional Local Government Auditors’ Certification Committee.
  • From 2016 he is a member of the Swedish Auditing Academy.
  • Board Member of the Swedish Association of Local Government Administrators
  • Member of the National Audit Office´s Examination Council.

Publications

2024

Pernilla Broberg, Torbjörn Tagesson (2024) Kommunal ekonomi, Vol. 3, p. 37-37 (Article, book review)
Pierre Donatella, Johanna Sylvander, Torbjörn Tagesson (2024) Public Money & Management (Article in journal)
Pernilla Broberg, Torbjörn Tagesson (2024) Auditing Transformation: Regulation, Digitalisation and Sustainability, p. 90-110 (Chapter in book)
Pierre Donatella, Emmeli Runesson, Torbjörn Tagesson (2024) Public Money & Management, Vol. 44, p. 366-375 (Article in journal)

2023

Torbjörn Tagesson (2023)

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