Alina-Carmen ALMĂȘAN
Alina is an Associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration – West University of Timisoara, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. She completed her PhD in Accounting in 2009. Her research interests lie in the area of Management Accounting, Integrated Reporting, and Accounting Education.
In 2007 Alina benefited from a research scholarship at Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom. During her academic career she published numerous research papers in internationally recognized accounting journals. Her research experience is capitalized as a member of the editorial board, as well as a reviewer of several prestigious accounting journals and conferences. Currently, Alina is a member of the European Accounting Association.
Her qualification allowed her to teach various accounting disciplines over her 20-year teaching career. As a results of her collaboration with multinational companies, she organized several training programs in Management Accounting, Controlling and Basic Accounting.
Rodica-Gabriela BLIDIȘEL
Rodica is a graduate of the Finance Department within the West University of Timisoara. She has a PhD in Accounting, as well as expertise in Financial Accounting, Public Sector Accounting and International Public Sector Accounting Standards. Rodica is an Associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration – West University of Timisoara, member of the Body of Expert and Licensed Accountants of Romania (CECCAR).
She completed post-doctoral studies in Economics and different courses in education practice. In 1995 she obtained a PhD scholarship at Nottingham Trent University.
Her qualifications allowed her to teach many accounting subjects and to perform accounting research. She published books and articles in internationally recognized journals, taking part of research teams in different educational and research projects.
Ovidiu – Constantin BUNGET
Ovidiu has a degree in Economics and Law, and a PhD in Accounting. He is an accountant, financial auditor, tax advisor, member of the Romanian Association of Accounting. Ovidiu studied in Romania and France, is a graduate of the Institute of Economic and Accounting Techniques in Toulouse, France and attended lectures on the International Accounting Standards of Social Sciences at the University of Lille II; he also completed postgraduate studies in the field of accounting and assessments in Romania.
Between 1995 and 2002 he has been a consultant of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and participated in numerous audits (statutory and IAS), due diligence, reorganization and bankruptcy, gaining expertise in the field of machine industry, food and chemical industry. He is also an expert pair at Agence pour l’Evaluation de la Qualite de l’Enseignement Superieur en Communaute Francaise (Bruxelles).
Currently, Ovidiu is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration within the University of Timisoara-Head of Accounting and Auditing department. His teaching portfolio includes Accounting, Financial Audit and Financial control, with many papers and articles published in these areas. He is a lecturer within CECCAR (Body of Expert and Licensed Accountants of Romania) and CAFR (Chamber of Financial Auditors of Romania). Ovidiu is also a Managing Partner at ABA Audit.
Cristina CIRCA
Cristina graduated at the West University of Timisoara and has a PhD in accounting. Her teaching portfolio includes Basic Accounting, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting and Financial Reporting, with Romanian, German and English as a teaching language.
Prior to being an academic, Cristina built her professional career in accounting and auditing firms, and is also a former financial controller of EU funded projects. Besides her teaching and research activities, she is still involved in the implementation of several EU projects supporting entrepreneurship. Her current research areas are management accounting and accounting education.
Alin-Constantin DUMITRESCU
Alin is a graduate of the Finance Department within the West University of Timisoara and has a Master Degree in Accounting expertise and company valuation. His qualifications include: Associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Audit Partner at A.B.A. Audit Timisoara, Certified financial auditor (CAFR Member), member of the Body of Expert and Licensed Accountants of Romania (CECCAR). He attended lectures of the Association de Formation en Comptabilite et Audit, organized in France (2003).
His diverse qualifications allowed him a vast area of practice, ranging from
being a teacher to financial audit consulting, IFRS, Financial audit and Internal audit. He published articles in these areas and is a lecturer within CECCAR and CAFR.
Currently, Alin has 16 years of experience in teaching accounting, auditing multinational companies and national companies, managing around 50 engagements every year in areas like financial audit and financing accounting (RAS and IFRS).
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