Intan Farhana is a lecturer at the Accounting Department, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Syiah Kuala. She started joining the university in 2024. As for her educational background, she completed her Bachelor's Degree (Sarjana Ekonomi) at Universitas Syiah Kuala in 2016 and her Master of Commerce (Accounting) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 2019. During her Master's studies, she conducted qualitative research in the area of management accounting in the public sector, titled "Assessing Budgetary Management of Local Government in Aceh, Indonesia". She investigated the late budget approval in Aceh Province, which was then analysed through an Islamic framework of public budgeting and Boltanski and Thévenot’s (1999) Sociology of Worth framework.
Her curiosity about different accounting conceptions has driven her to explore qualitative aspects of accounting in her research experience. However, she is always open to collaborative work with different methodologies. Her research interests are in the areas of governmental accounting, management accounting, and accounting for crisis.