Saravanan P

+91 431 250 5063

psn@iimtrichy.ac.in

Finance and Accounting

Ph.D (Bharathiar University, Coimbatore)

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Dr.P.Saravanan is currently Professor in the area of Finance and Accounting. Earlier, he was a professor in IIM Shillong. His areas of interest are corporate finance, security analysis and portfolio management, corporate governance and project finance. He has published  46 articles in various journals including ‘A’ category journals, which are ranked as per the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) classification. Seven of his case studies on NSE and BSE listed companies were published by Ivey Business School and available in Harvard Business School Case Repository Collection. He is a regular columnist in leading business newspapers like Economic Times, The Hindu Business Line, Financial Express and Mint. He has written four books in the area of accounting and financial management published by McGraw Hill, Oxford and Pearson Education publishers.
He has evaluated and adjudicated one hundred and twenty five  Ph.D Theses in the field of Management, Humanities and Social Science and Commerce as the Chairman of the panel of examiners for the institutions such as IIT-Madras, IIM Indore, XLRI Jamshedpur, Birla Institute of Technology Pilani, JNTU Hyderabad, Visvesvaraya Technological University, University of Madras, Osmania University Hyderabad, Madurai Kamaraj University, etc.
He conducted around hundred corporate training programme on topics such as finance for medical professionals, corporate governance, project finance and data analytics and his client list includes UNDP-India Office, LIC, Oil India Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation, HPCL, HDFC Bank, Larsen & Toubro, Mazagoan Dock Ship Builders Limited, and leading state and central public sector undertakings across the country. His consulting client list includes Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Department of Public Sector Enterprise, Government of India; Department of food civil supplies and consumer affairs, Government of Assam; Department of Police, Government of Meghalaya, Department of commerce and Industries, Governments of Meghalaya, Assam, Sikkim, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, etc. He was formerly Independent Director in the Board of Directors of Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation Ltd.  He is an associate member of the Institute of Financial Accountants UK and Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) Australia.
He received signficiant amount as research grant from clients such as RBI through IIBF Mumbai, National Housing Bank Delhi, ICSSR, NFCG and others to carry out action research.
He is also a visiting professor to IIM Kozhikode, IIM Indore, IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak, XLRI, Jamshedpur, etc. His teaching feedback ranges from 3.80 to 4.93 out of 5, across all programmes.

Journal Articles

Suhas M. Avabruth, Siva Nathan, Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2024

Suhas M. Avabruth, Siva Nathan, Palanisamy Saravanan, Share pledging by controlling shareholders and accounting conservatism: Evidence from India, Meditari Accountancy Research (2024) Vol. 32 No. 4, pp. 1349-1374 (ABDC- A)

Swechha Chada, Palanisamy Saravanan and Gopal Varadharajan | Year – 2024
Swechha Chada, Palanisamy Saravanan and Gopal Varadharajan, Socioemotional wealth and cash flow sensitivity of cash: Evidence from India, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2024) Vol.69, Part A, pp. 1-25 (ABDC- B)

Lanke P., Totawar A. K., Raghuraman J., and and Saravanan P. | Year – 2022

Lanke P., Totawar A. K., Raghuraman J., and Saravanan P., Hostile takeovers, culture, and firm performance: a sensemaking and sensegiving perspective. Journal of Indian Business Research (2022) 14(4), pp.426-446 (ABDC- C)

Palanisamy Saravanan and Sumit Banerjee | Year – 2022

Palanisamy Saravanan and Sumit Banerjee, Broken Engagement: Teaching Finance during Pandemic Times, Management and Labour Studies (2022), Vol.48, Issue 2 (ABDC- C)

Palanisamy Saravanan, Muthuveerappan Thenmozhi and Aghila Sasidharan | Year – 2021

Palanisamy Saravanan, Muthuveerappan Thenmozhi and Aghila Sasidharan, Are Independent Directors Enhancing Value in the Post-Mandate Period? Empirical Evidence from India, Journal of Public Affairs (2021) Vol.22, Issue S1 (ABDC- B)

Maram Srikanth, Puvvala Siva Rama Prasad and Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2020

Maram Srikanth, Puvvala Siva Rama Prasad and Palanisamy Saravanan, Small Finance Banks, Economic and Political Weekly (2020) Vol. 55, Issue No. 23 (ABDC- B)

Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2020

Palanisamy Saravanan, Why and How Crude Oil Price Became Negative? Economic and Political Weekly (2020), Vol.55, Issue No.50 (ABDC- B)

Saravanan P, Abhishek Totawar and Nideesh Joseph | Year – 2020

Saravanan P, Abhishek Totawar and Nideesh Joseph, National Strategy for Financial Education 2.0, Economic and Political Weekly (2020) Vol. 55, Issue No. 47 (ABDC- B)

Muthuveerappan Thenmozhi, Palanisamy Saravanan and Aghila Sasidharan | Year – 2019

Muthuveerappan Thenmozhi, Palanisamy Saravanan and Aghila Sasidharan, Impact of excess cash on earnings management and firm value: Evidence from China – Corporate Ownership and Control (2019), Vol 17, Issue 1 (ABDC- B)

Punam Prasad, Sivasankaran Narayanasamy, Palanisamy Saravanan and Kannadasan Manoharan | Year – 2019

Punam Prasad, Sivasankaran Narayanasamy, Palanisamy Saravanan and Kannadasan Manoharan, Does Corporate Governance Influence the Working Capital Management of firms: Evidence from India, International Journal of Corporate Governance (2019) Volume 10 Issue (1), pp.42-80 (ABDC- B)

Punam Prasad, Sivasankaran Narayanasamy, Samit Paul, Subir Chattopadhyay and Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2019

Punam Prasad, Sivasankaran Narayanasamy, Samit Paul, Subir Chattopadhyay and Palanisamy Saravanan, Review of Literature on Working Capital Management and Future Research Agenda, Journal of Economic Surveys (2019) Vol. 33 (3), pp.827-861(ABDC- B)

Rohit Joshi, Rohan Gupte and Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2018

Rohit Joshi, Rohan Gupte and Palanisamy Saravanan, A Random Forest Approach for Predicting Online Buying Behaviour of Indian Customers, Theoretical Economics Letter (2018) Vol 8 pp.448-475 (ABDC-B)

Palanisamy Saravanan and Manas Mayur | Year – 2017

Palanisamy Saravanan and Manas Mayur, Performance Implications of Board Size and Activity: Empirical Evidence from the Indian Banking Sector, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business and Society (2017) Vol.17, No.3. (ABDC-C)

Palanisamy Saravanan, Maram Srikanth and Suhas M Avabruth | Year – 2017

Palanisamy Saravanan, Maram Srikanth and Suhas M Avabruth, Compensation of Top Brass, Corporate Governance and Performance of the Indian Family Firms – An Empirical Study, Social Responsibility Journal (2017) Vol.13, Issue 3, 2017 (ABDC-B)

Palanisamy Saravanan, Maram Srikanth, Tara Shankar Shaw, Sivasankaran N | Year – 2017

Palanisamy Saravanan, Maram Srikanth, Tara Shankar Shaw, Sivasankaran N, Enhancing Shareholder Value through Efficient Working Capital Management: An Empirical Evidence from India (2017), Finance India, Vol XXXI No 3 (ABDC-C)

Palanisamy Saravanan, Maram Srikanth and Suhas M Avabruth | Year – 2016

Palanisamy Saravanan, Maram Srikanth and Suhas M Avabruth, Executive Compensation, Firm Performance and Corporate Governance: Evidence from India, International Journal of Corporate Governance (2016), Vol.7, No.4 (ABDC-B)

Tara Shankar Shaw, James J. Cordeiro, Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2016

Tara Shankar Shaw, James J. Cordeiro and Palanisamy Saravanan, Director Network Resources and Firm Performance: Evidence from Indian Corporate Governance Reforms, Asian Business and Management (2016) Vo.15, No.3 (ABDC-C)

Palanisamy Saravanan and Suhas M Avabruth | Year – 2015

Palanisamy Saravanan and Suhas M Avabruth, Determinants of Capital Structure – An Indian Case Study Using Artificial Neural Network, Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review (2015), Vol No.11, No.3 (ABDC-B)

Palanisamy Saravanan, Maram Srikanth and Suhas M Avabruth | Year – 2015

Palanisamy Saravanan, Maram Srikanth and Suhas M Avabruth, Gold Monetization Scheme – Will it meet with success?, Economic and Political Weekly (2015), Vol.50, Issue No.45 (ABDC-B)

Books

Nishi Malhotra and Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2025

In Pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals, 
Emerald Publishing, Leeds, U.K. 

Amir Aczel, Jayavel Sounderpandian, Palanisamy Saravanan and Rohit Joshi | Year – 2017

Complete Business Statistics
McGraw Hill Education (2017)

T Horngren, Gary L Sundem, Jo A Elliott Donna Philbrick and Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2017

Introduction to Financial Accounting, Pearson Education; Eleventh edition (26 October 2017)

Cases

Sumit Banerjee, Akanksha Tiwari, Parijat Lanke, Saravanan | Year – 2024

Varanasi Cantonment Board: Public Participation in Sustaining Transformation 
Ivey Publishing No. W37460

Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2023

Hindustan Oil Exploration Company (HOEC): Investment Strategy
Case Centre No: 123-0117-8

Anindya Mitra and Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2022
Paytm’s Listing Debacle: Case of Bizarre Valuation or Mistiming? 

Case Centre No: 122-0134-1

Anandapadmanaban Muralidharan, Abhishek Totawar, Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2021

Halycon Bank: The Change Management Fiasco
Case Centre No. 421-0018-1

Maram Srikanth, Palanisamy Saravanan and Gunta Srinivas | Year – 2018

Natco Pharma: Manufacturing Affordable Medicines 
Ivey Publishing No. 9B18N024

Maram Srikanth and Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2017

Nava Bharat: Energy Solutions for India
Ivey Publishing No. 9B17N017

Maram Srikanth and Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2016

Premier: Financing for Organic Growth
Ivey Publishing No. 9B16N001 

Maram Srikanth, Palanisamy Saravanan and Tara Shankar Shaw | Year – 2016

Sathavahana: Strategies for Financial Turnaround  
Ivey Publishing No.9B15N036 

Maram Srikanth; Palanisamy Saravanan; Tara Shankar Shaw | Year – 2016

Coromandel: Enhancement of Short-Term Finance
Ivey Publishing No.9B16N006

Maram Srikanth and Palanisamy Saravanan | Year – 2015

Covalent: Term Loan for Expansion and Modernisation
Ivey Publishing No.9B15N009 
  • For MBA Students, I teach Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management. 
  • For FPM research scholars,  Accounting Theory and Empirical Research and Corporate Finance Seminar.
  • Taught topics like assessing the financial health of the company, finance for non-finance executives, valuation of shares, project finance, etc. to various client companies such as L&T, Mazagaon Dock, IOCL, HPCL, BPCL and other Public Sector Enterprises, Government Bodies / Departments of both State as well as Central Government.   
  • Currently  Dean (Corporate Relations & Faculty Affairs), since 05.01.2023. Chief Vigialnce Officer (Part-Time) from  2021-23. 
  • Evaluated and adjudicated 170 (one hundred and seventy) Ph.D / FPM theses in the capacity as the Chairman of the panel as well as the member for the following universities / institutions. IIT Madras, IIT Dhanbad, IIM-Indore, XLRI Jamshedpur, Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, JNTU, Hyderabad, Visvesvaraya Technological University Karnataka,  University of Madras, Osmania University, Hyderabad, etc. 

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