October 18th 2006

The Associació Catalana de Comptabilitat i Direcció (ACCID) hasrecognized Llorenç Bagur and Josep Lluís Boned, assistant professors ofDepartment of Economy and Business at UPF, for their doctoraltheses. At the 3rd. edition of ACCIDs Awards and Grants Ceremony,there were also prizes for Salvador Alemany, for his professionalcareer, and for Teresa Buira for her academic excellence and also forLa Diputació de Barcelona for good working practices in financialinformation.

The awards ceremony was held on the 18th. of October and broughttogether over 200 accountants at Casa Llotja de Mar in Barcelona. Theceremony, organized by ACCID and La Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona,also included the conference entitled Nou Pla General deComptabilitat: principals canvis i impacte en lempresa catalana byOriol Amat, vice-president of ACCID and professor at UPF.

Llorenç Bagurs thesis
This thesis studies the techniques related to management accountingcurrently used in local corporations and examines why theseorganizations do not use the available accounting tools. The thesisshows that local corporations can operate more efficiently with theimplementation of said tools and also offers a model to follow inorder to improve the chances of success of these managementtechniques.

Josep Lluís Boneds thesis
Spanish public universities are undergoing great demographic, economicand social changes. And also they have to standardize theirqualifications according to pan-European criteria. These changesshould affect systems of management and organization which havetraditionally been unreliable and difficult to adapt. Given thissituation, the thesis studies current management systems employed bythese institutions and examines which factors contribute to thesuccess or failure of their implementation.