Academic Staff

Margaret Abernethy, AM
Professor Margaret Abernethy

Sir Douglas Copland Chair of Commerce

Management Accounting

  • Corporate governance: Board quality, CEO succession
  • Executive compensation
  • Performance measurement
  • Management control system design
Phone number +61 3 834 47655
Email m.abernethy@unimelb.edu.au
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Albie Brooks
Associate Professor Albie Brooks

Management Accounting

  • Corporate governance issues
  • Development of teaching case-studies in management accounting and control
Phone number +61 3 834 45305
Email albieb@unimelb.edu.au
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Patrick Ferguson
Dr Patrick Ferguson

Senior Lecturer

Management Accounting

  • Performance measurement and evaluation
  • Performance feedback
  • The provision of incentives in firms
  • Sports economics
  • Contest design
Email pfer@unimelb.edu.au
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Jennifer Grafton
Professor Jennifer Grafton

Associate Dean (Global Engagement)

Management Accounting

  • Organisational performance management and control (performance measurement systems, management of not-for-profits. inter-firm control, research methods and methodologies in management accounting)
Phone number +61 3 8344 7662
Email j.grafton@unimelb.edu.au
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Chung-Yu Hung
Associate Professor Chung-Yu Hung

Deputy Head of Department

Management Accounting

  • Management accounting
  • Internal information asymmetry
  • The role of agents' heterogeneity in control systems (managerial discretion, performance evaluation and compensation, organisational designs)
Phone number +61 3 8344 2152
Email chung-yu.hung@unimelb.edu.au
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Anne Lillis
Professor Anne Lillis

Emeritus Professor
Honorary

Management Accounting

  • Cost management practice
  • Evaluating strategic capital expenditures
  • Management control systems design (strategy and performance management)
  • Maximising reliability and validity in field research methods in management accounting
  • Performance impact of corporate downsizing
  • Performance measurement system design
Email alillis@unimelb.edu.au
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Sujay Nair
Dr Sujay Nair

Senior Lecturer

Management Accounting

  • Performance management
  • Incentive systems
Phone number +61 3 834 53799
Email sujay.nair@unimelb.edu.au
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Naomi Soderstrom
Professor Naomi Soderstrom

Management Accounting

  • Archival managerial accounting (health care, environment)
  • Corporate social responsibility issues
  • Empirical managerial accounting with an emphasis on the health care industry
Phone number +61 3 9035 7702
Email naomiss@unimelb.edu.au
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Michael Taouk
Dr Michael Taouk

Lecturer

Commercial Law; Management Accounting

  • Photovoltaic industry
Sarah Yang Spencer
Ms Sarah Yang Spencer

Management Accounting

  • Scholarship of teaching and learning
  • Higher education assessment
  • Corporate governance
  • Management control system
  • Organisational learning
Phone number +61 3 834 40928
Email s.yangspencer@unimelb.edu.au
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