Department of Accounting

cabaacc

Department of Accounting

Catherine
Batt
Assistant professor


Room: SOL/C4.23
Tel:
+4538152373
E-mail: caba.acc@cbs.dk
Presentation

Catherine holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Logistics and a Master's degree in Management Accounting and Business Analytics from Reykjavík University. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from Reykjavík University in 2020. Catherine joined the Accounting department in 2021.
Her research interests are Budgeting, Management Control Systems, and  Management Accounting. She has conducted both quantitative and qualitative research.
Recent research projects focus on Management Control Systems changes within the banking system in Iceland, and on Budgeting in private organizations.
She is a member of both the American and European Accounting Association. At CBS, Catherine teaches Cost and Management Accounting to master students and Management Control Systems to Bachelor students.

 

Primary research areas
  • Management control systems
  • Budgeting
  • Management Accounting
  • SME’s and Family businesses
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/cabaacc
Courses
  • Cost and Management accounting; Master level: MSc ASC
  • Management Control systems; Bachelor level; BSc SEM
  • Supervision: MSc ASC business projects and master thesis
Supervision

Bachelor and Master thesis

Selected publications
  • Cleary, P., Quinn, M., Rikhardsson, P., Batt, C. (2022) Exploring the links between IT tools, management accounting practices and SME performance: Perceptions of Irish CFOs. Paper accepted at the Accounting, Finance and Governance Review. Listed on AJG 2018 as a 1.
  • Rikhardsson, P., Thórisson, K., Bergthorsson, G., Batt, C. (2022). Artificial Intelligence and Auditing in Small and Medium Sized Firms: Expectations and Applications. Article accepted in the AI magazine. Ranked on SJR.
  • Batt, C., Rikhardsson, P., & Karlsson, T. (2021). Exploring the Impact of Organizational Context on Budgeting. Corporate Ownership and Control, 18(4), 134-151. https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv18i4art10 Listed on ABDC 2019 as a B.
  • Quinn, M., Cleary, P., Batt, C., & Rikhardsson, P. (2021). Accounting and Information Systems in Irish Family SME: Professionalization Effects. Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, 20(3), 454-476. https://doi.org/10.24818/jamis.2021.03004 Listed on AJG 2018 as a 1
  • Rikhardsson, P., Rohde, C., Christensen, L., & Batt, C. E. (2021). Management Controls and Crisis: Evidence from the Banking Sector. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(4), 757-785. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-01-2020-4400 Listed on AJG 2018 as a 3
     
Publications sorted by:
2022
Pall Rikhardsson; Kristinn R. Thórisson; Gudmundur Bergthorsson; Catherine Batt / Artificial Intelligence and Auditing in Small- and Medium-sized Firms : Expectations and Applications.
In: AI Magazine, Vol. 43, No. 3, 9.2022, p. 323-336
Journal article > peer review
Peter Cleary; Martin Quinn; Pall Rikhardsson; Catherine Batt / Exploring the Links between IT Tools, Management Accounting Practices and SME Performance : Perceptions of CFOs in Ireland.
In: Accounting, Finance & Governance Review, 23.5.2022
Journal article > peer review
2021
Martin Quinn; Peter Cleary; Catherine Batt; Pall Rikhardsson / Accounting and Information Systems in Irish Family SME : Professionalisation Effects .
In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2021, p. 454-476
Journal article > peer review
Catherine Batt; Pall Rikhardsson; Thorlakur Karlsson / Exploring the Impact of Organizational Context on Budgeting
In: Corporate Ownership and Control, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2021, p. 134-151
Journal article > peer review
Leif Christensen; Pall Rikhardsson; Carsten Rohde; Catherine Batt / Finanskrisens indvirkning på islandske og danske bankers ledelsesstyringssystemer
In: Revision & Regnskabsvæsen, Vol. 90, No. 5, 2021, p. 16-29
Journal article > peer review
Pall Rikhardsson; Carsten Rohde; Leif Christensen; Catherine E. Batt / Management Controls and Crisis : Evidence from the Banking Sector.
In: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4, 6.2021, p. 757-785
Journal article > peer review
2020
Catherine Batt / Budgeting and the Impact of Context. Developments and Perspectives
Reykjavík : Reykjavík University 2020, 251 p.
PhD thesis
Catherine Batt; Peter Cleary; Martin R. W. Hiebl; Marin Quinn; Pall Rikhardsson / The Digitalization of Family Firms : A Research Agenda.
In: A Research Agenda for Family Business: A Way Ahead for the Field. . ed. /Andrea Calabrò. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2020, p. 247-260 (Elgar Research Agendas)
Book chapter > peer review
2018
Leif Christensen; Pall Rikhardsson; Carsten Rohde; Catherine E. Batt / Changes to Administrative Controls in Banks after the Financial Crisis
In: Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2018, p. 161-180
Journal article > peer review
2016
Pall Rikhardsson; Carsten Rohde; Leif Christensen; Catherine Elisabet Batt / Financial Crisis and Changes in Management Controls in Banks
London : Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. CIMA 2016, 11 p. (CIMA Executive Summary Report, No. 1, Vol. 12)
Report > peer review
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Academic Interests

Budgeting
Management control systems
Management accounting

Outside activities

Nothing to declare