CHARIKA Channuntapipat (Bo)
Charika is a researcher and lecturer in Accounting, who is interested in how accounting (as a science and as a set of tools) can help promote sustainability and sustainable development. Also, she is interested in the influences of accounting and accounting numbers on society and how different people act upon them.
Her broad research interest focuses on sustainability governance; those include corporate disclosures and related assurance practices (e.g. sustainability reporting and assurance, integrated reporting). She has been engaging with those practices and professional services such as being one of the members in <IR> Academic Research Support Group for the term of 18-month from Q4 2016 to Q1 2018; appointment by invitation from The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC ).
Charika is currently working at Thailand Develpopment Research Institute (TDRI). Her research focuses on sustainability governance; and responsible business and sustainable development.
Prior to joining TDRI, she had worked at Birmingham Business School for about 4 years (2017-2021) as a Lecturer in Accounting. Before joining the school, she was a doctoral researcher at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS). She was awarded her Ph.D. in Accounting in 2016. Her doctoral research highlights the variation of sustainability assurance practice in the UK. She has been working to understand the practice from its practical setting and from the point of view of the practitioners. This research interest is still the core of her current research. Charika was also a graduate teaching assistant at AMBS teaching financial reporting for three consecutive years.
Her research interests include …
- Qualitative research
- Sustainability reporting and assurance (including other non-financial reporting and assurance such as integrated reporting)
- Corporate social responsibility and ‘responsible’ business
- Roles of auditing and accountability mechanism in corporate reporting
- Standard setting process
Her professional background lies in the areas of consultancy, and corporate banking. Although she has pursued my education all the way through PhD in the area of accounting. However, she believes accounting is more than debits and credits, to which many people are familiar with. She thinks accounting is embedded in and cover broad areas of organisational, political, and social issues.
Her professional background includes advisory services and corporate banking. She worked as an advisory associate at KPMG Thailand, providing IFRS convergence services to listed companies (specialising in telecommunication industry).
She also worked as a corporate credit analysis at Kasikorn Bank, Thailand (specialising in the electronics industry), where she was involved with a couple of departmental transformation projects, in which I was one of the project leaders in one project.
Charika’s professional experiences include …
- Consultancy
- Financial reporting analysis
- Corporate banking
- Researching
- Teaching and lecturing
Her skills include …
Besides accounting, finance, and business management, Charika’s interests/hobbies also include education, CSR, investment and financial planning, graphic designs, photography, and gastronomy. Explore more about her hobbies here.
Education
PhD in Accounting (Auditing and Accountability) – Alliance Manchester Business School
MSc in Accounting, Organisations, and Institutions (Merit) – London School of Economics and Political Sciences
Bachelor in Accountancy (1st class honoured) – Chulalongkorn Business School, Bangkok, Thailan
CFA level I (Passed at the 1st attempt in December 2011)
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