Jari Huikku
Associate Professor
Professori (Associate professor)
E701 Dept. Accounting
Head of Department
Department of Accounting
Jari Huikku is a Professor of Accounting (tenured, associate) and the Director of the Accounting and Business Law Department. Huikku’s main research areas include Strategic Investment Decision-Making, Management Control Systems, Goodwill, Post-Completion Auditing, and University Education. He teaches and supervises studies related to strategic investment decision-making and management control in master’s and doctoral programs. In addition, he is an instructor of a management consultancy course (capstone) where master students solve real-life assignments in their case companies. He has been a visiting scholar at the Copenhagen Business School, University of Auckland, University of Technology Auckland, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Technology Sydney, ESADE Business School (Spain), University of Valencia and University of Seville.
Huikku completed his Doctoral degree in the field of Accounting at Helsinki School of Economics in 2009. He also holds Master’s degree in finance from Turku School of Economics and Business Administration (University of Turku). He has been at Aalto University School of Business since 2003. Before entering his PhD studies and joining the academic community, he worked for 15 years in several multinational companies such as Partek, Wärtsilä, Sanitec, and Evac and held various financial director and general management positions. He has published in various top ranked academic journals, such as Accounting, Organizations and Society; Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal; European Accounting Review; British Accounting Review, and Accounting and Business Research.
Full researcher profile
Email
jari.huikku@aalto.fi
Postal address
Ekonominaukio 1
02150 Espoo
Finland
Phone number
+358505531920
Areas of expertise
Capital investment, Capital budgeting, Goodwill, Management control systems
Honors and awards
Best Paper Award (Management Accounting Research Group Conference)
Awarded for "Examining Strategic Factors Influencing the Use of Risk Analysis Techniques in Strategic Investment Decision-Making".
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Accounting
Nov 2024
The best paper award, Massey University
The usefulness of goodwill information to financial analysts: a qualitative approach
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Accounting
Nov 2022
Huugo Raninen Prize. The best article in the volume 57 (2008) of the Finnish Journal of Business Economics
Managerial uses of post-completion auditing of capital investments
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Accounting
Jan 2008
The best qualitative paper award, Massey University
Assessing the reliability of self-assessment based post-completion auditing reports
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Accounting
Nov 2012
The best paper award, Massey University
Assessing the reliability of self-assessment based post-completion auditing reports
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Accounting
Nov 2012
The best paper award, Lincoln University
Theorising Strategic Investment Decision-Making: A Conceptual Framework based on Strong Structuration Theory
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Accounting
Nov 2015
Publications
Jari Huikku, Jouko Karjalainen, Tomi Seppälä
2025
Accounting and Business Research
Jari Huikku, Hannu Ojala, Markus Mättö
2025
Accounting Education
Jari Huikku, Elaine Harris, Moataz Elmassri, Deryl Northcott
2024
Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
Jari Huikku, Terhi Chakhovich, Katja Kolehmainen
2024
Hanna Silvola, Jan Mouritsen, Jari Huikku
2024
Nordic Journal of Business
Jari Huikku, Markus Mättö, Hannu Ojala
2023
Jari Huikku, Tiina Henttu-Aho, Janne Järvinen, Kati Marttila
2023
Terhi Chakhovich, Jari Huikku
2022
13th Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting
Jari Huikku, Marja Henttu-Aho, Janne Järvinen, Kati Marttila
2022
Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association
Jari Huikku, Emma-Riikka Myllymäki, Hannu Ojala
2022
British Accounting Review
Jari Huikku, Hanna Silvola, Jan Mouritsen
2022
Markus Mättö, Jari Huikku, Hannu Ojala
2022
Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association
Jari Huikku, Tiina Henttu-Aho, Janne Järvinen, Kati Marttila
2021
11TH EIASM CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Jari Huikku
2021
ForestBioFacts
Jari Huikku
2021
ForestBioFacts
Jari Huikku, Aino-Maria Pöyhiä
2020
Nordic Journal of Business
Hannu Ojala, Jari Huikku, Emma-Riikka Myllymäki
2019
Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association
Elaine Harris, Deryl Northcott, Moataz Moamen Elmassri, Jari Huikku, Rodrigo Silva de Souza
2018
Jari Huikku, Emma-Riikka Myllymäki, Hannu Ojala
2018
Jari Huikku, Aino-Maria Pöyhiä
2018
Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association
Jari Huikku, Jouko Karjalainen, Tomi Seppälä
2018
British Accounting Review
Elaine Harris, Deryl Northcott, Moataz Moamen Elmassri, Jari Huikku
2017
Conference of the European Network for Research in Organisational and Accounting Change
Jari Huikku, Jan Mouritsen, Hanna Silvola
2017
Accounting, Organizations and Society
Jari Huikku, Tomi Seppälä, Jouko Karjalainen
2017
Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association
Jari Huikku, Timo Hyvönen, Janne Järvinen
2017
Baltic Journal of Management
Elaine Pamela Harris, Deryl Northcott, Moataz Moamen Elmassri, Jari Huikku
2016
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
Jari Huikku, Kari Lukka
2016
Accounting and Business Research
Hanna Silvola, J. Mouritsen, Jari Huikku
2016
Financial Reporting and Auditing as Social and Organizational Practice
Elaine Harris, Deryl Northcott, Moataz El-Massri, Jari Huikku
2015
10th Conference of the European Network for Research in Organisational and Accounting Change (ENROAC), Galway, Ireland, 3-4 June, 2015
Elaine Harris, Moataz El-Massri, Jari Huikku
2015
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal workshop on strong structuration theory, Glasgow, UK, April 27, 2015
Elaine Harris, Deryl Northcott, Moataz El-Massri, Jari Huikku
2015
9th Annual New Zealand Management Accounting Conference (NZMAC 2015), Christchurch, New Zealand, 19-20 November, 2015
Jari Huikku, Timo Hyvönen, Janne Järvinen
2015
10th Conference of the European Network for Research in Organisational and Accounting Change (ENROAC), Galway, Ireland, 3-4 June, 2015
Jari Huikku, Kari Lukka
2015
38th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Glasgow, UK, 28-30 April, 2015
Jari Huikku, Kari Lukka
2014
Management Control Association / Macorg Symposium, Paris, France, 11-12 September, 2014
Jari Huikku
2013
Monforma 2013, Monash University Forum for Management Accounting, Melbourne, Australia, 27-29 November, 2013
Jari Huikku
2013
7th Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control, Barcelona, Spain, September 18-20, 2013
Hanna Silvola, Jari Huikku, Jan Mouritsen
2013
Nordic Academy of Management Conference (NFF), Reykjavik, Iceland, 21-23 August, 2013
Jari Huikku
2012
8th Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting, Brussels, Belgium, December 12-14, 2012
Jari Huikku
2012
Auckland Region Accounting 11th Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 30th Novemeber, 2012
Jari Huikku, Hanna Silvola
2012
Tilintarkastus
Jari Huikku, Hanna Silvola
2012
Tilintarkastus
Jari Huikku, Hanna Silvola
2012
Tilintarkastus
Jari Huikku, Jouko Karjalainen, Tomi Seppälä
2012
6th Annual New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 22-23 November, 2012
Jari Huikku, Jouko Karjalainen, Tomi Seppälä
2012
Manufacturing Accounting Research Conference MAR 2012, Helsinki, Finland, June 13-15, 2012
Jari Huikku, Jan Mouritsen, Hanna Silvola
2012
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Cardiff, U. K., 11-13 July, 2012
Jari Huikku, Jan Mouritsen, Hanna Silvola
2012
8th Interdisciplinary workshop on "Intangibles, intellectual capital & extra-financial information", Grenoble, France, September 27-28, 2012
Hanna Silvola, Jari Huikku, Jan Mouritsen
2012
35th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 9-11 May, 2012
Jari Huikku
2011
Liiketaloudellinen aikakauskirja
Jari Huikku, Jan Mouritsen, Hanna Silvola
2011
Accounting, Organizations and Society: Financial Reporting as Social and Organizational Practice, London, UK, December 12-13, 2011
Jari Huikku
2011
Capital budgeting valuation : financial analysis for today's investment projects
Jari Huikku
2009
Jari Huikku
2009
EAA 32nd Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Tampere, Finland, 12-15 May, 2009
Jari Huikku
2009
Viisas raha
J. Huikku
2009
Liiketaloudellinen aikakauskirja
Jari Huikku
2009
Jari Huikku
2008
EAA 31st Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 23-25 April, 2008
Jari Huikku
2008
6th Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting, Brussels, Belgium, 15-17 December, 2008
J. Huikku
2008
Liiketaloudellinen aikakauskirja
J. Huikku
2007
European Accounting Review
Jari Huikku
2006
EAA 29th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Dublin, Ireland, April 22-24, 2006
Jari Huikku
2005
EAA 28th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 18-20, 2005
Jari Huikku
2005
7th Manufacturing Accounting Research Conference (MAR), Tampere, Finland, May 30th - June 1st, 2005
Jari Huikku
2004
EAA 27th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Prague, Czech Republic, April 1-3, 2004
Jari Huikku
2001