Rachappa Shette is currently working as an associate professor in finance, accounting, and control area at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. His interest areas for teaching, training and research are financial statements analysis, forensic accounting, and strategic cost management. He has been teaching for more than 20 years in post-graduate, executive post-graduate and PhD programmes. He has trained senior managers and junior managers from more than 100 companies. He also trained investigating officers of regulators on forensic accounting and credit analysts of credit rating institutions on credit rating. He was a member of Accounting Standard Board of India and Accounting Standard Board of India for Local Bodies in past. He attended faculty development programmes at the Harvard Business School Boston and Stanford Business School. Prior to current employment, he worked as a faculty at the National Institute of Securities Markets (established by Securities Exchange Board of India), Narsee Monjee Institute of Manag