King Carl Tornam DUHO, ACMA, CGMA, CA

I am a Chicago-based finance and strategy professional with experience supporting organizations in financial planning, modeling, fundraising, and strategic finance. I also continue to utilize my first-hand experience at the intersection of business and policy by supporting entrepreneurship and finance for small businesses in the United States and beyond.

I also continue to pursue the research agenda focusing on the intersection of accounting and development, which I have worked on as a research scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 

My research interests and scope have evolved. My current interest is on how accounting information, standards, and practices shape and are shaped by strategic business decisions and government interventions, especially in contexts where firms operate under institutional, regulatory and political frictions. I am interested in how accounting is an infrastructure for economic coordination, serving both as a tool for internal decision-making and a tool for accountability in firm-government relations.

I am interested in empirical and theoretical variations, in archival designs, quasi-natural settings, field experiments, and if possible, economic modelling of firm behavior.

My previous research works were on financial services firms (banks, microfinance, and fintech), information economics (corporate disclosures on ESG issues), auditing, and taxation. I am also a Youth Fellow with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where I engage periodically with IMF staff to explore their work and how it can be enhanced, especially in developing economies.

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