Rajiv D. Banker University of Minnesota

Rajiv D. Banker co-authored Management Accounting 2/e with Anthony Atkinson, Robert Kaplan, and
S. Mark Young.

Rajiv D. Banker holds the Ashbell Smith Chair in Accounting and Information Management and is the Director of Accounting Programs at The University of Texas at Dallas. He is on leave from the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Arthur Andersen Chair in Accounting and Information Systems. He has taught also at Carnegie Mellon University and Dartmouth College. He received two awards for teaching excellence at Carnegie Mellon University and the Outstanding Teacher Award at the University of Minnesota.

Banker graduated from the University of Bombay at the top of his class and received a doctorate in business administration from Harvard University. He qualified as both a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant in India, receiving a gold medal for standing first at a national examination.

Banker has published more than 100 articles in leading research journals in accounting, information systems, computer science, operations management, management science, organization management, and economics, including articles in the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Accounting Research. He has received five awards for his research articles. He has also coedited a book on Strategic Information Technology Management.

Banker’s current research in management accounting includes issues pertaining to strategic cost management, activity based costing, costs of quality, nonfinancial measures of performance, and value of performance-based incentive plans, among other issues. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Management Accountants, and several leading corporations. He has presented academic and executive education seminars in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

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