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Torbjörn Tagesson

Professor

Torbjörn Tagesson is professor of accounting. His research focuses on accounting and auditing in both the private and the public sector.

Accounting as the main theme

Torbjörn Tagesson is Professor of Accounting. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Lund University, Sweden in 2002 with a dissertation on Cost Accounting as the Basis for Benchmarking and Pricing. Today Torbjörn divides his time between research and teaching at 糖心直播, where he became a professor in 2012, and work as Executive Director at the Swedish Council for Municipal Accounting.

Teaching in accounting

Professor Tagesson teaches academic courses att both basic, advanced and post-graduate level. He also supervises graduate students in the fields of accounting and auditing.

Research in accounting, auditing and governance

Professor Tagesson's interest in research focuses on the areas of accounting, auditing and governance. Empirically, he is interested in both the private and the public sectors. A large part of Torbjörn's research focuses on how institutional and economic factors affect different accounting choices. It may be a matter of application and compliance of standards and regulation, but also questions about extent and content of voluntary disclosures.

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Assignments outside the academy

  • Torbj枚rn is since 2003 member of the Council for Municipal Accounting鈥檚 expert panel and since 2008 he is the Executive Director.
  • He was appointed as an expert at the latest revision of Municipal Accounting Act, SOU 2016:24 (KomRed).
  • Member of the Swedish Association of Professional Local Government Auditors鈥� Certification Committee.
  • From 2016 he is a member of the Swedish Auditing Academy.
  • Board Member of the Swedish Association of Local Government Administrators
  • Member of the National Audit Office麓s Examination Council.

Publications

2026

Niclas Hellman, Torbj枚rn Tagesson, Peter 脰hman, Anders Gr枚nlund (2026) (Book)
Niclas Hellman, Torbj枚rn Tagesson, Peter 脰hman, Anders Gr枚nlund (2026) (Book)
Joakim Engstr枚m, Peter 脰hman, Torbj枚rn Tagesson (2026) Financial Accountability and Management, Vol. 42, p. 90-102 (Article in journal)

2025

Torbj枚rn Tagesson (2025) (Report)
Pierre Donatella, Johanna Sylvander, Torbj枚rn Tagesson (2025) Public Money & Management (Article in journal)

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