Professor Narendra Nath Kushwaha is an Assistant Professor at Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University. After receiving PhD in Finance and Accounting from the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli in 2021, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore till July 2022. He has briefly worked in the industry at Bank of New York Mellon India, Pune. His research focuses on the intersections of accounting and corporate governance. He has published an article in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance and a case study (along with the teaching note) in Ivey Publishing. One of his research projects was awarded a grant under the NSE-IGIDR Corporate Governance Research Initiative 2017-18.

Working Papers

• Kushwaha N. N., Anand A., Jayadev M., Raghunandan K. (2022) Related Party Transactions and Audit Fees: Indian Evidence. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4139071. 
• Ebrahimi T., Kushwaha N. N., and Gupta J. (2021) Firm-level Political Risk and Earnings Management. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3994064.

Research Grant

Topic: Control-Ownership Wedge, Related Party Loans, and Institutional Ownership: Evidence from Indian Business Group Firms

• Principal Investigator: Narendra Nath Kushwaha
• Co-Principal Investigator: Bipin Kumar Dixit
• Period of Study: October 2017 – September 2018
• Funding Institutions: National Stock Exchange of India & Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research under the NSE-IGIDR Corporate Governance Research Initiative 2018.

Award and Fellowship

• AFA PhD Student Travel Grant Award 2020 by American Finance Association, San Diego, USA.
• Junior Research Fellowship in Management by University Grants Commission, New Delhi.

Journal Publication

• Kushwaha N. N. & Dixit B. K. (2021). The Satyam Effect on Related Party Loans in India. Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148558X211048146. (ABDC: A, ABS: 3).

Case and Teaching Note Published

• Kushwaha N. N., Dixit B. K., & Sharp D. (2017). Narayana Health: The Initial Public Offering Decision. Ivey Publishing. https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/W17503-PDF-ENG. (Prod. #: W17503-PDF-ENG).

Newspaper Articles

• Saravanan P., Kushwaha N. N., & Chada S. (2020). Look Out for Cover-ups in Financial Reports. Financial Express. June 17, 2020 (www.financialexpress.com/industry/look-out-for-cover-ups-in-financial-reports/1993690/ ).
• Saravanan P., Dixit B. K. & Kushwaha N. N. (2019). Related Party Transactions: Know When They are Risky. Financial Express. October 28, 2019.(www.financialexpress.com/money/related-party-transactions-know-when-they-are-risky/1747313/ ).