Demystifying Financial Statements for Smarter Decisions

Vibha Tripathi

Vibha Tripathi is an Assistant Professor in the Finance Accounting & Control area at Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University. She holds a PhD in Accountancy from Gujarat University. She has over 20 years of academic experience and has been involved in teaching and mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University. She teaches Financial Analysis to Executives from Pidilite, Arvind AMD and Forbes Marshall in the Executive Program-GROW at Ahmedabad University. She has received the Chairman's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is the Area coordinator of the Finance, Accounting and Control area at AMSOM. Her interest areas are Financial Reporting and Analysis, Corporate Accounting, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Related Party transactions, ESG and Earnings Management and capital structure of companies.  She is among the few faculty members who have a flair for teaching ENABLE courses. She has also developed and taught courses like Financial Statements and Analysis, Corporate and Advanced Corporate Accounting, Financial Accounting and Management Accounting at Ahmedabad University. These courses encompass the new IFRS converged financial statements and focus on accounting for core business transactions. Her teaching philosophy includes blending real-life companies data, case studies and projects along with classroom teaching. She has developed case studies that intertwine the application of accounting and finance concepts for classroom use and has been published at Harvard Business School. Her cases are used by Rennes School of business and other foreign universities. Moreover, she has visited various manufacturing and service industries within and outside INDIA. She has visited Polysolar Ltd, Cambridge U.K., Region Ltd, Clean Tech Ltd, UKIBC and FICCI in London. In Delhi & Ludhiana: Vardhman Textiles, Vihaan Network Limited, Shyam Telecom Limited and Whirlpool Limited. In Gujarat: Adani gas, Mundra port, Orpat Electronics, Welspun, Atul chemicals.