Seppo Ikäheimo

Professori
Professori
E701 Dept. Accounting

Professor Seppo Ikäheimo's research interests include the following:

  • Topics: Corporate governance, including compensation systems, auditing, board of directors, banking regulation, ownership.
  • Methods: Both quantitative statistical analysis as well as qualitative interpretive interview approach.
  • Data: Key data comprises of Finnish-based data of private firms including firm and individual specific data and interviews of Finnish company managers.
Full researcher profile
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Honors and awards

The Best Developed Course Material Award

A fully digitalized course “Principles of Financial Management” with Teemu Malmi won the best developed course material award of Aalto University School of Business in year 2018.
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Accounting and Business Law Jan 2018

Jaakko Honko Medal

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Accounting and Business Law Jan 2017

Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Accounting and Business Law Jan 2015

Publications

Long-Run Stock Returns Following Internal Control Disclosures

Al Ghosh, Seppo Ikäheimo, Emma Riikka Myllymäki, Jukka Sihvonen 2025 Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

CEO IQ and earnings quality in private firms

Emma Riikka Myllymäki, Seppo Ikäheimo, Yaping Mao 2025 Accounting and Business Research

Osakesidonnaisten palkitsemisjärjestelmien käyttö ja verotus : oppivuosista tähän päivään

Seppo Ikäheimo, Risto Walden 2023 Veropolitiikka - Liber Amicorum Timo Viherkenttä

Managerial intentions for and employee perceptions of group-based incentives

Sinikka Moilanen, Seppo Ikäheimo 2019 Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change

Do White Collar Employee Incentives Improve Firm Profitability?

Seppo Ikäheimo, Juha-Pekka Kallunki, Sinikka Moilanen, Eduardo Schiehll 2018 Journal of Management Accounting Research

Perhe on paras? Perheomisteiset pörssiyhtiöt Suomessa

Seppo Ikäheimo, Olli-Pekka Lumijärvi 2018

Corporate governance in Finland: current state of art, challenges and opportunities.

Seppo Ikäheimo, Mirel Leino 2017 Corporate Governance: new challenges and opportunities

Executive compensation

Seppo Ikäheimo 2017 A dean, a scholar, a friend

IQ and mutual fund choice

Mark Grinblatt, Seppo Ikäheimo, Matti Keloharju, Samuli Knüpfer 2016 Management Science