Dr. Krishnan M.
Dr. Krishnan M holds PhD from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He did hi Masters Degree in Commerce and Business Administration. He has more than 19 years of experience in teaching at post graduate level. He has done his PhD in the area of Strategic Financial Management. He has undergone the FDP at IIM-Ahmedabad. His areas of interest are Investment Management, Cost Management and Corporate Finance. As a visiting faculty he has offered courses in different business schools in Kerala. He has offered an MDP on Agri-Business to CEOs. He is an approved research guide for doctoral programme in Commerce of University of Kerala. He is currently the Head of the department of commerce. He is also PG Board of Studies member in Management of University of Kerala and academic committee member in Commerce of the Sree Narayana Guru Open University, Kollam.
1. Investment Management
2. Cost Management and Corporate Finance
3. SME
19 plus years of experience
- 2004-2011 at DCSMAT Vagamon
- 2011-12 Saintgits Institute of Management
- 2012- till date SD College
15.11.2012
- Investment Management
- Cost Management and Corporate Finance
- Advanced Corporate Accounting
Indian Accounting Association
- Head of the Department 2021 onwards
- IQAC Joint Coordinator till 2023
- IQAC Member
- Member – Purchase Committee
- Coordinator – Technical Committee
- Coordinator -International Collaboration with Thribhuvan University, Nepal for the first International conference of the Department of Commerce, Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha.
- Coordinator of Seminar on US Credit Rating Downgrade and European Debt Crisis; Impact on Indian Economy and Stock Market held at Saintgits Institute of Management on 24/08/11.
- Coordinator of the 4th National Conference on Finance and Banking held at Saintgits Institute of Management, 2011
1. Resource person for five day Advanced Training on Moodle for Professors of Kerala Agricultural University, March 2022
2. Resource person for Faculty Development programme titled Excel for Beginners, organized by Teaching Learning Centre, Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha, 2022
3. Trained teachers of TKM Institute of Management on MOODLE
4. Trained teachers on MOODLE at Loyola College of Social Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram.
5. Conducted many Financial Education Workshop as certified Financial Education Resource Person of Securities Exchange Board of India from 2011 to 2017.
6. Resource person for the Workshop on ICT enabled teaching and learning organised at Department of Commerce, Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha on 29th August 2013
7. Resource person for a one-day Management Development Programme titled Gateway to Finance for the executives of SYNTHITE industries Kerala held on 12th May 2012.
8. Resource Person for MDP on Agri Business with Special Reference to Coconut Based Products conducted by DCSMAT Institutions in association with Coconut Development Board, Kerala from 10-13 November, 2010.
1. Dr. Krishnan M, Dr. Prasanth S Pai (2023), Dimensions of Customer Satisfaction in
Health Insurance, The Online Journal of Distance Education and E-Learning, ISSN-
2147- 6454, Volume 11, Issue 2, April 2023, Pg No- 2092-2097
2. Dr. Prasanth S Pai, Dr. Krishnan M (2023), Efficacy of Social and Welfare Measures
in Tea Factories of Idukki District in Kerala, SATRACHEE, ISSN 2348-8425, Issue
26, Vol.38, No.2, Jan- March, 2023, Pg. No. 177-182
3. Dr. Krishnan M, (2021) Impact of market orientation on the performance of small and
medium enterprises, Management Researcher, ISSN :2230-8431, Vol-XXVII-No-3-
Jul-Sep2021, Pg No – 33-42
4. Dr. Krishnan M, (2021) Financial Management practices of small and medium
enterprises, Management Researcher, ISSN :2230-8431, Vol XXVII No 2 April-June
2021, Pg No.91-101.
5. Krishnan M, Dr. K. B. Pavithran, (2018), Inventory management practices among
Small and Medium Enterprises, International Journal of Basic and Applied Research,
ISSN 2249-3352 (P) 2278-0505 (E), December 2018 Volume 8 Number 12, 127-136
6. Krishnan M, Dr. K. B. Pavithran, (2018), Accounting practices of Small and Medium
Enterprises in Kerala, International Journal of Basic and Applied Research, ISSN
2249-3352 (P) 2278-0505 (E), December 2018 Volume 8 Number 12, Pages -609-617.
7. Co-editor of the book titled Recent Trends in Finance and Banking, Excel Publishers,
2012, ISBN: 978-93-82062-05-9
8. A study on the product factors affecting an Investor’s preference towards public
sector life insurance products, Krishnan M, International Journal of Research in
Computer application and Management, Volume 2, (2012) Issue No. 7 (July), ISSN
2231-1009
9. Case in Services Marketing: Published by Excel Books; Co Authored the case Rama
Varma Club
10. Case in Services Marketing: Published by Excel Books; Co authored the case Planet
Health; The Next Big Battle Ground?
11. Planet Health; the next big battle ground? Mr. Shivoham Singh, Dr. Surendra Kumar
Vyas, Mr. Krishnan M published in April-June volume of Pacific Business Review
12. “Use of Internet radio in Academics – An Indian Perspective” – in SCMS Journal of
Indian Management. This was published as a lead article. The article was co-authored
by Dr. Vinith Kumar Nair, DCSMAT.
The paper titled “A study on the factors affecting an investor’s preference towards public sector life insurance products” in the International Conference on Emerging trends in Finance and Accounting organized by SDMIMD, Mysore, held on August 3-4, 2012 was selected for the conference proceedings.
UGC Minor Research Project titled “STUDY ON THE MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN KERALA” from 2014-2016.
1. Chaired a session for the International Conference jointly organized by PG & Research Department of Commerce, Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha and Thribhuvan University,Nepal titled Entrepreneurship, Business and the Impact of COVID on 22 nd and 23 rd July 2022.
2. Presented the paper titled “A study on the factors affecting an investor’s preference towards public sector life insurance products” in the International Conference on Emerging trends in Finance and Accounting organized by SDMIMD, Mysore, held on August 3-4, 2012.
3. Presented the paper titled “Strategic Financial Management and Small and Medium Enterprises” in the 1 st International Conference on Business, Strategy and Management held at Kolkata on June 25 th 2011.
4. Presented a paper on Accounting practices of Small and Medium enterprises at UGC sponsored National seminar on Challenges and Prospects in Finance and Financial Services organized by PG Department of Commerce and Research Centre, Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha on 25-26 September, 2014.
5. Presented a paper titled strategic financial management practices of Small and Medium enterprises in Kerala- a pilot study, at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on the Impact of Globalisation on the MSME sector in Kerala organised by the Department of Commerce, CMS College, Kottayam during 18-19 April 2013.
6. Presented a paper titled Financial Management practices of small and medium enterprises in Kerala at the UGC sponsored national seminar of Recent Trends in Corporate Governance on 10-11 September 2015, by the PG department of Commerce and Research Centre, Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha.