Amélia Maria Martins Pires graduated in Business Administration (1992), received MSc Degree in Accounting and Finance (2000) and a PhD in Corporate Management (2005), specialization in accounting. She is currently a Full Professor of the Department of Business and Social Ciences at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança - Portugal. She teaches several courses around accounting and management, since 1998 and she is collaborator member of UNIAG (Applied Management Research Unit). She has publications in peer-reviewed journals and has several communications at international scientific conferences. She serves as a member of some Scientific Committees of International Conferences and has collaborated as reviewer with several journals. Research fields of interest are mainly Financial Accounting (national and international) and performance evaluation systems.

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