Patrícia Gomes is Associate Professor of Public Accounting in the Department of Accounting and Taxation at the Management School of the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA). She concluded the PhD in Accounting in 2011 at the University of Minho. She is the Director of the Research Centre on Accounting and Taxation at IPCA (CICF), where she assumed until January 2022 the Presidency of the Scientific Council). She also collaborates with the Research Center on Political Science at the University of Minho. She is the coordinator of the postgraduate in the new Public Sector Accounting system based on IPSAS and is the principal researcher in various projects about public sector accounting, accountability and performance (for example the project funded by FEDER - POCI-01-0143-FEDER-106908- that studied the public sector accounting changes toward IPSAS adoption in the Iberian Peninsula). She coordinated several applied-research projects developed in articulation with the institutions of the region (namely municipalities) helping them solve specific problems and implement innovations in the accounting and management system. She is the author of several papers published in high-quality journals and books in the area of public accounting, accountability, and performance. She is a member of the Scientific committee of international networks (like CIGAR and EIASM) and is a reviewer in high-quality journals in their research interest fields (like JPBAFM and PMM). She collaborates with the University of Aveiro teaching in the Ph.D. Program of Accounting being responsible by the curricular unit of Advanced Studies in Management Accounting. She supervises Ph.D. theses in the areas of public accounting, accountability, and performance management. She was Vice-President at IPCA for Research and Innovation and Pedagogical Management Affairs from 2011 until 2021. In this function, she was responsible for the Quality Assurance policy at IPCA and the President of the Council for Quality and Evaluation. During this period she coordinated the IPCA policy and strategy to promote academic success and to reduce students' dropout. Since 2014 she integrated the IPCA Management Board. She was the main coordinator of different strategic projects for digitalization, modernization, innovation, and IoT application in higher education systems (SAMA projects). Research interest: public accounting and accountability, management accounting and performance, sustainable development report in the public sector.