Monika

Monika

Assistant Professor
Finance & Accounting
monika[at]iimv[dot]ac[dot]in



Dr. Monika Dhochak is working as an Assistant Professor in the Finance and Accounting area. Prior to joining IIM Visakhapatnam, she worked as an Assistant Professor at IIM Nagpur, Goa Institute of Management and EDII, Ahmedabad. She holds a PhD degree from IIT Roorkee. Her doctoral thesis topic is "Determinants of Venture Capitalists’ Investment decisions in India".

Over the years, Dr. Dhochak has taught the courses on Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Financial Statement Analysis at various programmes including PGP, Executive MBA, and Executive Education. Her research primarily focuses on understanding and analysing the decision-making of venture capitalists’, and how do investors (Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Private Equity) value a new start-up and what are the pertinent factor to take the decision of investment. She has published a number of research papers in reputed international journals and presented her work on Start-up valuation and venture capitalists’ investment decisions in many National and International Conferences.

PGP
  • Financial Accounting
  • Management Accounting
  • Financial Statement Analysis

Executive MBA
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Financial Statement Analysis

PhD
  • Research in Entrepreneurial Finance

  • Dhochak, M., Pahal, S., & Doliya, P. (2022). Predicting the Startup Valuation: A deep learning approach. Venture Capital, 1-25.
  • Dasgupta, R., & Dhochak, M. (2022). Progenitors of Firm’s Search Behaviour: A Country Comparison of Australia vs. India. Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal, 16(6), 120-145.
  • DasGupta, R., & Dhochak, M. (2021). Risk-Antecedents of Firms and Strategic Mediators–New Evidence from a Cross-Country Analysis. American Business Review, 24(1), 2.
  • Dhochak, M., & Doliya, P. (2020). Valuation of a startup: Moving towards strategic approaches. Journal of Multi‐Criteria Decision Analysis, 27(1-2), 39-49.
  • Dhochak, M., & Doliya, P. (2021). Application of fuzzy analytic hierarchy process in multi-criteria decision-making of venture capitalists. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 43(2), 165-179.
  • Dhochak, M., Acharya, S. R., & Sareen, S. B. (2019). Assessing the effectiveness of business incubators. International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 26(2), 177-194.
  • Dhochak, M., & Sharma, A. K. (2016). Identification and prioritization of factors affecting venture capitalists’ investment decision-making process: An analytical hierarchal process (AHP) approach. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 23(4), 964-983.
  • Dhochak, M., & Sharma, A. K. (2016). Integration of factors affecting venture capitalists' investment decision: an interpretive structural modelling approach. International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 15(1), 38-52.
  • Dhochak, M., & Sharma, A. K. (2016). Using interpretive structural modeling in venture capitalists’ decision-making process. Decision, 43(1), 53-65.
  • Dhochak, M., & Sharma, A. K. (2015). Impact of global financial crisis on Indian venture capital firms: An empirical evaluation. Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, 8(4), 330-345.

Selected Conferences

  • Dhochak M, Kotai H (2023), “Earnings Management: A case of Vodafone and Idea”, World Continuous Auditing & Reporting Symposium, IIM Visakhapatnam, 
  • Dhochak M, Dasgupta R. (2022), “Progenitors of Firm’s Search Behaviour: A Country Comparison of Australia vs. India, ISDSI Global Conference, IIM Nagpur.
  • Doliya P, Dhochak M. (2019), “A Meta- Synthesis of Auditing Fair Value Measurements (FVMs) for Systematic Review”, Conference on Applied Economics and Finance, GIM Goa, India.
  • Dasgupta R, Dhochak M. (2019), “Progenitors of Firm-risk? A Bi-country Study of Australia and India”, World Finance & Banking symposium, New Delhi, India.
  • Dhochak M, Sharma AK (2016), “Venture Capital: A Review and Synthesis”, International conference on financial markets and corporate finance, IIT Madras, India
  • Dhochak M, Sharma AK (2016), “Determinants of venture capital: A venture capitalists and entrepreneur’s perspective”, NIDA International Business Conference 2016– Sustainability in business, NIDA International Business School, Thailand (Best paper Award).

  • Programme Director of one year Post Graduate Certification Programme in “Fintech” for two batches.
  • Organized a five-day ATAL FDP on “Entrepreneurial Finance”.
  • Provided training to the entrepreneurs on “Managing Finances”.
  • Provided training sessions to MGNF fellows on “Developing cost structure of a new product”.
  • Taught the Accounting and Finance modules in various one year Post graduation certification programmes including in General Management Programme, Strategic Management Programme, Fintech.

  • Area Chair – Finance & Accounting
  • Member – PhD Committee
  • Member – PGP Admissions Committee
  • Member – Library Committee