Dr.Prakash B. obtained post-graduate degree in commerce from Karnataka University, Dharwad in the year 2004 with Accounting and Taxation specialization and Ph.D. degree in the year 2006, from Gulbarga University, Gulbarga in Karnataka state, on the topic “Corporate Restructuring Through Mergers & Acquisitions in India”. He is presently working as a professor in the department of Management Studies of Acharya Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. He has two years of industry and 17 years of teaching experience in various colleges/business management institutes. Dr.Prakash has participated in more than 20 conferences, seminars and workshops at national and international level and presented the papers. He has been invited for host of seminars, workshops as a resource person. He has published three books-Accounting for Management (Himalaya Publishers), Risk Management (Kalyani Publishers) and Mergers & Acquisitions-Theory and Practice (Kalyani Publishers).