- Sophie Hoozée is Associate Professor of Management Accounting and Control and a member of the Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG). She teaches BSc and MSc courses on cost accounting, management accounting and management control. Her research focuses on the design of costing systems and management control systems in societally important contexts, such as health care and recycling. Sophie is an editorial board member of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal and Social & Environmental Accountability Journal. Before joining Ghent University in 2015, Sophie spent five years abroad: two years at IESEG School of Management (Lille, France) and three years at Erasmus School of Economics (Rotterdam, The Netherlands).
- Sophie has published in Accounting, Organizations and Society (2020, 2024), Abacus (2012), Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (2022, 2025), Australian Accounting Review (2018), European Accounting Review (2018, 2022), Issues in Accounting Education (2015), Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (2023), Journal of Accounting Education (2020), Journal of Cleaner Production (2016), Journal of Management Accounting Research (2018), Journal of Management Control (2022), Management Accounting Research (2010, 2013, 2022, 2023, 2025), Radiotherapy & Oncology (2019), Scandinavian Journal of Management (2017), Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal (2019) and Waste Management (2024). She is also a co-author of several textbooks and book chapters.
- In parallel with her academic activities, Sophie serves as a Court Expert, supporting courts in the quantification of economic damages. Sophie also holds several non-executive board memberships. She is a non-executive board member at Primoris Group, as well as an independent non-executive board member and Chair of the Audit Committee at Europabank. In addition, Sophie is actively involved with the IBR-IRE (the national institute of registered auditors), where she serves as a board member of the ICCI competence centre, chairs proficiency examination juries and sits on the judging panel for the Belgian Awards for Sustainability Reports.
- Sophie supervises two Ph.D. students in the research group: Annelies Fievez & Nicola Van Camp. She also co-supervises two interdisciplinary Ph.D. students in health care: Yaqeen Shanti (Ghent University Hospital) and Thomas Boogmans (KU Leuven).
Expertise
- Costing system design
- Time-driven activity-based costing
- Costing in health care
- Management control system design
- Measurement and control of ESG performance
- Sustainability reporting
- Environmental management accounting
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