Janek Ratnatunga

Janek Ratnatunga, FCA is a Sri Lankan born Australian academic. A Professor of Accounting, he is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants (Australia), and an Adjunct Professor of Accounting at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. Formerly, he was the Dean and Head of School of Commerce in University of South Australia and prior to that the Head of the Department of Accounting & Finance and Chair in Business Accounting at Monash University[1][2]

Educated at the Royal College, Colombo, he went on to gain his MBA and PhD from the University of Bradford. He has also held academic positions at the University of Melbourne and the University of Canberra in Australia; and the University of Washington, University of Richmond and University of Rhode Island in the USA. He is currently the Editor of the Journal of Applied Management Accounting Research. He has authored/co-authored twenty-eight books on strategic cost management, entrepreneurship, financial accounting, accounting theory and financial modelling; and over 250 academic and professional papers. Most of his contributions are listed on Research Gate.

He has worked in the profession as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, and as a consultant for the World Bank. He has undertaken a consultancy for the Australian Department of Defence in the valuation of strategic capabilities, and has valued the ‘brand’ capabilities of Telecommunication and IT companies. He is also an authority on the business and accounting implications of global warming and carbon trading. His work in the area is titled, “An Inconvenient Truth about Accounting”.[3]

In 2009 he received the joint American Accounting Association, AICPA (USA), CIMA (UK) and CMA (Canada) Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award.