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Sotirios Karatzimas is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Department of Accounting and Finance of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He holds a PhD in Accounting from the Department of Business Administration of AUEB, a MSc in Human Resources Management from AUEB and a bachelor degree from the Department of Accounting and Finance of the same University. He has conducted post-doctoral research on the topic “Public sector accounting and austerity in Greece”, and he has served as Lecturer at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and as Assistant Professor at Neapolis University Cyprus. He is cooperating with the MSc in Human Resources Management of AUEB and the distance learning program ‘Public Sector Accounting’ offered by the ELLC of AUEB. His research focuses on public sector accounting and management accounting. His work has been presented in various conferences and has been published in international leading journals such as International Review of Administrative Sciences, Government Information Quarterly, Public Money and Management, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, Accounting Education and more. He has worked on the implementation of EU-funded projects and he is member of a European Study Group of Public Sector Accounting Education.