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Jun 30, 1917 Died on 07 Mar 1963 (aged 45)
Finnish organizational theorist
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About Henrik Virkkunen
- Johan Henrik Virkkunen (30 June 1917 – 7 March 1963) was a Finnish organizational theorist and Professor of Accounting at the Helsinki School of Economics, whose 1954 textbook Laskentatoimijohdon apuna (Accounting as a Tool of Management) influenced Finnish accountancy thinking for decades.Virkkunen obtained his Ph.D.
- at the Helsinki School of Economics with the thesis, entitled Teollisuuden laskentatoimi (Industrial accountancy).
- He was Professor of Accounting at the Helsinki School of Economics from 1955 to 1963 beside Martti Saario, and its dean from 1961 to 1963.
- Virkkunen is also known for co-founding with Matti S.
- Martela and others Martela, a Finnish company supplying furniture and interior solutions. Virkkunen's main work Laskentatoimijohdon apuna (Accounting as a Tool of Management) from 1954 was translated into German in 1956.
- In the work he expressed the view that "accounting is a management tool without any right to an existence of its own." Accounting needed to supply the input for management functions as planning and control.
