Its Use: A Short History of the Management Accounting Courses in Russian

• September 2001: Twenty managers in the Russian-American joint venture "Varyeganneft" oil company in Nizhnevartovsk started their modern management accounting course studies according to a contract between Corporation Centre Business School, Moscow, and Uppsala University in Sweden.

• May 2000: Fifty managers at the "TNK-Nizhnevartovsk" oil company in Nizhnevartovsk started their modern management accounting course studies according to a contract between Corporation Centre Business School, Moscow, and Uppsala University in Sweden.
• February 2000: Another twenty managers at the "Udmurtneft" oil company in Izhevsk started the course based on the DidaktEkon material. The course arrangement is a collaboration between Corporation Centre Business School, Moscow, and Uppsala University in Sweden.

• April 1999: Twenty managers at the "Udmurtneft" oil company in Izhevsk started the course based on the DidaktEkon material. The course arrangement was a collaboration between Corporation Centre Business School, Moscow, and Uppsala University in Sweden.

• A contract was signed by the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, and the Corporation Centre Business School in Moscow for a course for 20 managers at the "Chernogorneft" oil company in Nizhnyvartovsk. The course started in December and final examinations were organized in May 1997.
• The Umeå School of Business and Economics organized a new course for some 60 students at Petrozavodsk State University in Russian Karelia and its branch in the town of Apatity on the Kola Peninsula. This collaboration was funded by the Swedish Institute.
• October 1996: Our course is given a second time in the retraining programme for 60 former military officers at the "Perspektiva" institute in St. Petersburg. The course was financed by SIDA.
• June 1996: A course for ten academic teachers from St. Petersburg was held at the Department of Business Studies in Uppsala.
• February 1996: A course was started for 30 students at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.

• November 1995: Our course is a part of a larger retraining programme for 60 former military officers at the "Perspektiva" institute in St. Petersburg. The course is financed by the Swedish aid organization SIDA.
• September 1995: Another 20 managers at the "Chernogorneft" oil company started a course organized by the Corporation Centre Business School in Moscow.
• The course material was used by The Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå University, in their course for some 60 students at Petrozavodsk State University in Russian Karelia and its branch in the town of Apatity on the Kola Peninsula.
• The courses organized by the Dept. of Business Studies at Uppsala University for students at the St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance continued with 30 students in the autumn of 1995 and with another 30 students in spring of 1996. The collaboration between Russian establishments and the universities in Umeå and Uppsala University was funded by the Swedish Institute.
• April 1995: Contracts were signed by the Department of Business Studies and DidaktEkon AB with Corporation Centre Business School in Moscow for courses for 60 managers (top level and middle management) at the "Chernogorneft" oil company in Siberian town Nizhnyvartovsk.
• April 1995: A course for 30 students started at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance with financial support from the Swedish Institute.

• November 1994: The second course for Baltic Beverages Holding started at the brewery in Lithuania.
• October 1994: Volvo started to use the course material for Russian employees at the company offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
• September 1994: Two more courses for the Swedish Institute and BITS with 84 students and 60 military officers started at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (SPbUEF). In connection with these courses there was also a training programme for eight teachers at SPbUEF.
• January 1994: With financial support from the Swedish Institute and BITS the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University started two courses for 60 students and 60 military officers at St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.

• October 1993: The first course for managers started (top level and middle management, in total 30 people) at the Baltic Beverages Holding breweries in Estonia and Latvia. (The breweries are owned by Pripps-Ringnes, Sweden-Norway, and Hartwall, Finland.)

• January 1992: The DidaktEkon company was registered, the project to produce a modern management accounting course material in Russian was sponsored in the spring of 1992 by Pripps and Tetra Laval (support to DidaktEkon) and, in the autumn of 1992, by the Swedish Institute (support to the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University).