Kari is a research-active Professor Emeritus. His research interests and his international publication record cover a wide range of management accounting as well as accounting theory and methodology topics. Kari’s teaching focused on management accounting, but he also gave a course on the philosophy of science and research methodology for doctoral students. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of EAR from 2000 to 2005. Currently, Kari is an Associate Editor of QRAM and a member of the Editorial Boards of AAAJ, ABR, AOS, BAR, CPA, JAOC, and MAR. In 2015-2019, he served as the International Director of the Management Accounting Section of the AAA. He is a member of the Faculty of the EIASM, too. In that context, he organized and chaired, jointly with Prof. Michael Shields, the biannual conference on “New directions in management accounting” in 1998-2016. Kari was the coordinating faculty member of the EDEN doctoral course on “Case-based research in management accounting”, organized biannually in 2003-2015. For several decades, Kari was actively involved in the executive education of the Turku School of Economics. After being a member of the Board of the Turku School of Economics from 1996 to 2009, he served as a member of the Council of the School from 2010 to 2022. He was the Chair of the University Collegiate Council of the University of Turku from 2014 to 2021. In 2022, Kari received the Anthony G. Hopwood Award for Academic Leadership from the EAA.

Management accounting and its change
The paradox of digitalisation and validation of information
Tasks and roles of financial managers
Management control in internationally operating firms
Methodology of business studies and philosophy of science
Accounting theory

Management accounting
Methodology of business studies and philosophy of science