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Dr. Kumuda P R PhD (Commerce)

Associate Professor, Department of Finance and BFSI
BIO

About The Faculty

Dr. Kumuda P.R. has over 25 years of experience in teaching accounting, finance, and banking at premier B-schools in Bengaluru. She is a passionate writer, has developed content in the areas of accounting and finance for Manipal University, Jain University and Sikkim Manipal University. She completed her Ph.D. in Commerce from Bangalore University in 2019, She is the Associate Editor of MS Ramaiah Management Review, Institute's management research journal and Executive Editor of Vitta Kosha, Finance newsletter of the Institute. She has  published many research papers in high quality indexed journals and holds 3 Patents. 

Education

  • M Com -Bangalore University (Finance)
  • M. Phil (Management) - Madurai Kamraj  University
  • PGDIB (International Business): Bangalore University
  • National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) (Commerce)–UGC, New Delhi
  • PhD (Commerce)–: Bangalore University

Area of Research

  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • BFSI
  • Macro economics

Awards and Recognitions

ISCON AWARD for “Outstanding Efforts in the Promotion and Diffusion of Timeless Indian Cultural Values”. February 2025

Resource Person

  • Resource person eMBA (Finance) for Manipal University, Sikkim Manipal University (Distance Education), Manipal Globalnxt University, Malaysia.
  • Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the area of Commerce for Sikkim Manipal University (from 2011 to 2013)
  • Corporate Trainer - AH Construction (Mauritius) Ltd “Finance for Non finance Managers”.
  • Corporate Trainer - Nash Consulting (Mauritius) Ltd “Strategic Cost Management- its relevance in today’s world”
  • Resource person for the course ‘Financial Reporting and Control’ ,  MBA programme  of Malaysian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship and Business  under the Faculty exchange program of MSRIM with Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia.
  • Resource person for Manipal University, Sikkim Manipal University and Jain University in the area of Accounting and Finance for the development of  SLMs for  MCom and  MBA for subjects Management Accounting, Financial and Management Accounting, Financial Management, Advanced Financial Accounting and Advanced Financial Management.