She was born on October 01, 1964 in Rača. She ended elementary and secondary education (economic and commercial department) in Rača with high achievement. In school year 1983/84 she enrolled at the Faculty of Economics in Kragujevac as a regular student, Financial and Accounting Department, where she graduated in 1987 with the grade point average of 9.1. She has been employed at the Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, since February 15, 1991 when she was elected assistant-trainee in Cost Accounting Systems - Managerial Accounting. Since the academic year 2006/07 she has been performing lessons in Cost Accounting. In addition to these courses, she was engaged until 2007 for lessons in Special Accounting - Financial Institution Accounting.

She was enrolled in Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade- Department of Financial and Accounting Analysis, in academic year 1991/92. She passed the exams from the curriculum with the grade point average of 9.25. She defended her master's thesis, entitled "Standard Costing as a Management Information Base of Company’s Management Function", in 1995 at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade and received a Master’s degree in Economics. She defended her PhD thesis, entitled "Kaizen Costing - Management Accounting Concept, System, and Technique in the Function of Cost Leadership Strategy", on June 04, 2010, Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac. Since 2010 she has been teaching in the courses: Cost accounting, Management Accounting, and Accounting Information Systems; also from 2012 Performance Management on Master’s Studies, and from 2013 Integrated Cost Management on Doctoral Academic Studies. She has participated in several projects, and in addition to master's thesis and doctoral dissertation she has published a textbook, a number of scientific papers in journals in the field of accounting, in monographs, and collections of papers. She is the author of papers for several symposia in the field of accounting. She was a team leader in the implementation of Junior project "Exploring the Usefulness of Accounting Performance Measures in Predicting Shareholder Return in Serbian Capital Market in the Period 2006-2011", funded by the Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac.

She speaks Russian and uses English language. She uses the Windows operating system and programming language Word and Excel as well as Internet communications.