Department: Accounting & Finance

13 years

Dhruv Sharma is a finance professional with expertise in Cost Control, KPI Management, Accounting Processes, Budgeting, Financial Analysis & Management. He has a teaching experience of  more than 12 years and is currently working as an Assistant Professor at IMS Ghaziabad. He is pursuing Ph.D. in Behavioral Finance from Galgotias University. Prior to that, he had done MBA in Finance from Gautam Buddh Technical University. His research involves analysing investor buying behavior, investor personality and perceptual biases, assessing the characteristics and usefulness of the financial forecasts of managers and analysts. His teaching interests are in Corporate Finance, Behavioural Finance, Investment Management, Financial Technology (Fintech), Financial Management, Corporate Accounting, Cost and Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, particularly financial statement analysis for MBAs, and business plan analysis, advanced financial accounting for senior undergraduates. He has published his research papers extensively in high quality journals that are indexed in the ABDC and SCOPUS categories. He has also worked as a Finance Analyst for Accenture India Pvt. Ltd.

Achievements / Research Interest / Area of Research Interest

• Behavioral Finance, Corporate restructuring, Budgeting, Market Analysis, Fintech

 
Intellectual Contribution (Publications)

• Indian Economy: Food Security Bill and Land Acquisition Bill-Aiming North Heading South, Published in theproceedings of National Seminar on India Rising: Where are wein the Trajectory Published by ITS College (2012) (ISBN No.: 987-81-928461-0-1)
• Benefits of E- Governance in India, International Conference on E- Governance in Digital India : Prospects and Opportunuties for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• A critical Analysis of Healthcare in India- Opportunities andChallenges. International Conference on Global Trends in Management, Governance Entrepreneurship (ICGTMGE- 2017)
• Impact of GST on Producer and Manufacturer. Presented in Seminar on Sustainability and Growth of Business in Digital Era
• Pension Finance in India. International Conference on Management Imperatives for Sustainable Growth organized by ICFAI Business School, Gurgaon
• Fintech- The Dawn of Era in India. Third International Conference on Facets of Business Excellence- FOBE 2018 at IMT,Ghaziabad
• Non Performing Assets: A Comparative Study of SBI & HDFCBank. Published in Kaav Publication
• Behavioral Finance Studies- Emergence & Development, Published in International Journal of Innovative Research & Advanced Studies
• Emergence of Behavioral Finance: A Study on Behavioral Biases during Investment Decision Making in 2021. Published in International J. of Economics and Business Research of Inderscience.
• Digital payment Apps: Perception and Adoption A Study of Higher Education Students, Published in International Journal of Enterprise Network Management

Other Professional Activities

• FDP on Effective Teaching at Trident Group of Instituitions
• FDP on Finance for Non-Finance Executive at IMS, Lalquan
• FDP on Pedagogic Interventions in Teaching at IMS, Ghaziabad
• FDP on Factor Analysis at IMS, Ghaziabad
• Workshop on Consumer Protection and ConsumerEmpowerment in India in Collaboration with Center for ConsumerStudies Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi
• Awarded Information Technology 100 hours course of study certificate with 1st Division
• FDP on Research Methodology using SPSS, IMS Ghaziabad
• FDP on Case Writing and Development, IMS Ghaziabad
• Attended 28th National Annual Convection of Ghaziabad Management Association on Leadership in the Age of Transformation- An Opportunity for Development
• Worshop on Relevance of Case Studies, IBS Gurgaon
• Indian Accounting Association, NCR Chapter 7 Days National Faculty Development Programme on Time Series and Panel Data Analysis (20th - 26th July, 2020) with the collaboration of Ministry of Human Resource Development Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching Teaching Learning Centre at Ramanujan College (University of Delhi).
• Organized National Seminar on Indian Financial System- Tactical Issues, Challenges and Scope on 19^th October 2019 at IMS Ghaziabad, University Courses Campus.

Financial Management. Cost Accounting, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, International Financial Management, Corporate Accounting, Behavioral Finance, Security Analysis & Investment Management, Income Tax Planning, Behavioral Economics, Management of Financial Services.