Empowering Development With Strategic Accounting : Organizational, Economic, and Sustainable Impacts

In today's dynamic and complex environment, the integration of accounting tools with institutional strategies plays a crucial role in advancing organizational, economic, and sustainable development. This synergy empowers both private and public institutions to utilize financial and non-financial information for regulatory compliance and reporting. It also acts as a basis for strategic decision-making and long-term value creation. The increasing demand for institutions to adopt responsible fiscal policies and align their operations with sustainable practices underscores the relevance of further research in strategic accounting. Empowering Development With Strategic Accounting: Organizational, Economic, and Sustainable Impacts explores how interdisciplinary approaches, linking accounting, finance, sustainability, and strategic management, can promote holistic development. It provides both theoretical and practical frameworks that illuminate how institutions can leverage accounting tools and strategies to foster sustainable growth, navigate regulatory transformations, and enhance competitiveness. This book covers topics such as business strategy, e-commerce, and risk forecasting, and is a useful resource for business owners, academicians, researchers, and scientists.

Ana Pinto Borges holds a PhD in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, in 2009. Since 2010 is Coordinating Professor at ISAG - European Business School specializing on the areas of Economics, Management, and Finance, and since 2015 Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Business Management and President of the Pedagogical Council of ISAG. She is Scientific Coordinator of Research Centre in Business Sciences and Tourism (CICET – FCVC) since 2021 and coordinated the ISAG Research Centre (NIDISAG) between 2015 and 2021. Since 2018, she is researcher of the Centre for Research in Organizations, Markets and Industrial Management (COMEGI). She supervised 2 PhD theses and is now supervising other 2, in addition to having supervised more than 40 master's theses. She published more than 180 publications (around 120 indexed in Scopus/WoS databases) in journals/book chapters/proceedings and 5 books (3 indexed in Scopus). She is associate editor at the Eurasian Business Review (indexed by Scopus/WoS – Q1) and editor and one of the founding members of the European Journal of Applied Business and Management (EJABM). She founded, integrated the organizer and scientific committees, and did the co-editor of the proceedings of International Conference in Applied Business and Management (ICABM – 5 eds since 2016), International Workshop in Tourism and Hospitality Management (IWTHM – 3 eds since 2017), and in Accounting and Taxation (IWAT – 3 eds since 2021). All these academic events have been indexed or are in evaluation by WoS and by EBSCO, among others. Furthermore, she is the coordinator and co-author of several applied projects financed by external entities (companies, municipalities, among others). She is Economist at the Portuguese Health Regulatory Authority since 2010 with the main function of carrying out sectoral studies and issuing opinions in the scope of access, quality and competition. Member of the Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Saúde (since 2005).

Albertina Paula Moreira Monteiro . She has a PhD in Economics and Business, specialising in accounting (University of Santiago de Compostela) and a PhD in Marketing and Strategy (University of Minho), a Master's degree in Accounting and Auditing (University of Minho) and a degree in Accounting and Business Management (Polytechnic Institute of Porto). She is a Senior Lecturer at Porto Accounting and Business School of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISCAP-IPP) in the scientific area of Accounting. She is an integrated researcher at the Centre for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (CEOS.PP) and a collaborating researcher at the CICF (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave) and OSEAN (University of Madeira). She has been involved in several research projects in accounting area. Furthermore, She has published numerous scientific articles in indexed international journals and in the proceedings of international conferences.

Elvira Vieira holds a PhD in Applied Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, in 2007. Since 2012, serves as Dean of ISAG - European Business School, where she is also Principal Coordinating Lecturer, Member of the Technical-Scientific Council and Coordinator of the Scientific Area of Economics, since 2009. Also, invited Lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo - School of Business Sciences, since 2009. With a research affiliation as integrated member at the Applied Management Research Unit (UNIAG) since 2010, and collaborator member at the Research Centre in Business Sciences and Tourism (CICET - FCVC) since 2021, she’s author of more than 160 publications in scientific journals with peer review, some indexed in various international databases (WoS - Clarivate Analytics, Scopus and others) and published 22 book chapters and 5 books. Supervised 4 doctoral theses and 25 master's dissertations. Has participated as a researcher in more than 30 projects and has been the lead researcher on 15. Her key area of expertise include Social Sciences with an emphasis on Human Capital, Economics, Management, Tourism, Regional and Cross-border Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Information and Communication Technologies and Corporate Governance. Received 2 awards/honours - 1st Euroregion Research Award and Diploma of Honorary Member of the European Higher Council of Honorary Doctors from ESERP Business School.