Title: Management Accounting Tools and Trends: An Investigation of Its Usefulness and Relationship among the Philippines SMEs

Biography: Joy Lynn Legaspi is an Associate Professor and works at De La Salle University-Manila. She holds a BS in Accountancy and a Certified Public Accountant. She is a graduate of Advanced Professional Diploma in Management Studies at City of London College, Master of Business Administration at Birmingham City University, United Kingdom and Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration at Wesleyan University-Philippines. She has presented an abstract on “Evaluating Management Accounting Tools in SMEs: Issues and Evidence” at the International House, 2018 International Symposium on Business and Management Conference in Osaka, Japan and “Does Management Accounting Information Meet the Needs of SMEs?” An Investigation of Its Usefulness from Manufacturing Enterprise” at the 5th International Conference on Management Research and Advances in Accounting 2018, Langkawi Malaysia. She grew up in province of Nueva Ecija which is best known for being the “Rice Granary of the Philippines” and passionate about teaching, research, travel, and commitment to expanding the body of knowledge, especially in the area of Management Accounting.