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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Rosemary Addis AM
Professor Rosemary Addis

Enterprise Professor in impact, sustainability and innovation

  • Scaling impact ecosystems
  • Governance and decision-making that contributes positively to sustainable development
  • Strategic asset allocation for impact
  • Solutions-based innovation and investment
  • Innovative finance for impact
Gary Biddle
Professor Gary Biddle

Financial Accounting

  • Corporate governance
  • Value creation
  • Valuation
  • Management compensation
  • Performance metrics
  • Economic value added (EVA®)
Phone number +61 3 8344 9807
Email g.biddle@unimelb.edu.au
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Stuart Black
Dr Stuart Black

Enterprise Fellow in data, analytics, disruption and innovation

  • Secondary use of data
  • Business model innovation
  • Disruption
  • Analytics and data in accounting
  • Corporate governance
Jon Black
Dr Jonathan Black

Senior Lecturer

Auditing/Financial Accounting

  • Disclosure incentives
  • Fair Value Accounting
  • Corporate Governance
  • Accounting Misconduct and Regulation
Phone number 03 8344 7230
Email jon.black@unimelb.edu.au
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Noel Boys
Mr Noel Boys

Teaching Fellow

Financial Accounting

  • Development of online teaching resources
Phone number +61 3 834 43416
Email nboys@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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Geoffrey Burrows
Geoffrey Burrows

Accounting

Phone number +61 3 8344 2162
Email ghb@unimelb.edu.au
Danny Burton
Danny Burton

Lecturer

Commercial Law; Financial Accounting

  • Engaging international students
  • Distribution in insolvency
  • Pedagogy of teaching business law to non-law students
Phill Cobbin
Dr Phill Cobbin

Principal Fellow
Honorary

Auditing

  • The history of accounting and auditing particularly where accounting and auditing history intersects with contemporary military history
  • The market for audit services
  • The role of the Australian accounting profession in the ‘business’ of war
Phone number 834 44039
Email pecobbin@unimelb.edu.au
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Wayne Coetzee
Mr Wayne Coetzee

Teaching Fellow

Auditing

  • Audit Quality
  • Development of online audit education
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Bob Cornick

Lecturer (Education Focussed)

Greg Cusack
Mr Greg Cusack

Teaching Fellow

Financial Accounting

  • Teaching and learning strategies in accounting
Michael Davern
Professor Michael Davern

Professor of Accounting & Business Information Systems

Accounting

  • Decision making in accounting and information systems
  • AI/Data Analytics
  • Financial Reporting
  • Management Control
  • Risk
  • Ethics
Phone number +61 3 8344 3413
Email m.davern@unimelb.edu.au
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Tongqing Ding
Dr Tongqing (Tony) Ding

Senior Lecturer (Engagement/Research)

  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate disclosure of governance-related information
  • Financial reporting
  • Director labour market
  • Textual analysis
Matt Dyki
Mr Matt Dyki

Teaching Fellow

Financial Accounting; Information Systems

  • Online accounting education
Phone number +61 3 834 47537
Email mdyki@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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Lisa Greig

Teaching Specialist (Education Focussed)

Jane Hronsky
Ms Jane Hronsky

Lecturer

Auditing

  • Audit judgement (communication issues in financial and audit reporting)
Phone number +61 3 834 45301
Email janejfh@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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Xue Jia
Dr Xue Jia

Senior Lecturer

Financial Accounting

  • Information economics
  • Voluntary and mandatory disclosures
  • Cost of capital
  • Heterogeneous investors in capital markets
Phone number +61 3 9035 4056
Email xue.jia@unimelb.edu.au
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Like Jiang
Associate Professor Like Jiang

Senior Lecturer

Auditing

  • Corporate governance
  • External audit
  • Internal audit
Phone number +61 3 8344 0035
Email like.jiang@unimelb.edu.au
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Flora Kuang
Professor Flora Kuang

Financial Accounting
Centre for Asian Business and Economics

  • Corporate governance and reporting quality
  • Executive compensation and performance evaluation
  • Forensic accounting
  • Social networks and social capital
Phone number +61 3 8344 9806
Email flora.kuang@unimelb.edu.au
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Warren Lee
Warren Lee

Tutor
Assistant Lecturer

Financial Accounting

  • Innovative teaching strategies for student engagement
  • Game-based learning
  • Aligning curriculum with professional skills
  • Taxation law
Faculty of Business & Economics Academic Staff Stewart Leech
Professor Stewart Leech

  • Accounting Information Systems
  • AI in accounting, auditing, and insolvency/corporate recovery
  • ERP Systems
Phone number +61 3 8344 5314
Email saleech@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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Joana Linggo Liong
Ms Joana Linggo Liong

Tutor in Charge

Accounting

Junhao Liu
Dr Junhao Liu

Senior Lecturer

Centre for Asian Business and Economics

  • Financial Reporting and Disclosure
  • Accounting Intangibles
  • Big Data and Data Analytics
  • Digital Economy
Derick Lyle
Mr Derick Lyle

Teaching Fellow

  • Enterprise information systems
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Information management systems (business processes, information quality, risks and controls)
  • Learning design (experiential learning, simulations and games)
Phone number +61 3 834 48563
Email dlyle@unimelb.edu.au
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Rebecca Mattocks
Dr Rebecca Mattocks

Lecturer

Auditing

  • Audit quality
  • Audit judgement and behaviour
  • Auditor reporting
  • Sustainability Assurance
Warren McKeown
Mr Warren McKeown

Teaching Fellow

Financial Accounting

  • Asymmetric information and agency theory in the context of the personal financial planning industry
  • Fund manager performance
  • Market efficiency
  • Personal financial planning
  • Superannuation
Phone number +61 3 834 45309
Email wmckeown@unimelb.edu.au
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Tasneem Mohammed
Dr Tasneem Mohammed

Lecturer (Education Focussed)

Financial Accounting

  • Financial Reporting and Disclosure
  • Corporate Governance
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Vic Naiker
Professor Vic Naiker

Deputy Head of Department

Auditing/Financial Accounting

  • Archival auditing (audit committees, auditor industry specialisation, auditor remuneration and auditor decisions)
  • Corporate governance
  • Accounting information and capital markets
Phone number +61 3 8344 8454
Email vic.naiker@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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Matthew Pinnuck
Professor Matthew Pinnuck

Financial Accounting

  • Behavior of firms in response to missing important earnings benchmarks
  • Behavior of fund managers
  • Performance of fund managers
  • Quality and comparability of reported earnings
  • The reliability of the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions
Phone number +61 3 8344 7539
Email mpinnuck@unimelb.edu.au
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Brad Potter
Professor Brad Potter

Head of Department

Financial Accounting
Centre for Accounting and Industry Partnerships

  • Accounting for public sector and not-for-profit entities
  • Financial reporting and disclosure
  • International financial reporting
  • The development of financial reporting regulation
  • Water and carbon accounting
Bo Qin
Associate Professor Bo Qin

Financial Accounting
Centre for Asian Business and Economics

  • Executive compensation
  • Corporate governance
  • Financial reporting
  • Say on pay
  • Textual analysis
  • CEO succession
  • Top management team
Phone number +61 3 8344 9361
Email b.qin@unimelb.edu.au
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Michelle Sabe
Ms Michelle Sabe

Lecturer

  • Authentic learning and assessment
  • Student engagement in large group settings
  • Business & taxation law
  • Decision-making in accounting
Phone number 03 9035 5381
Email sabem@unimelb.edu.au
Stefan Schantl
Associate Professor Stefan Schantl

Financial Accounting

  • Accounting theory
  • Financial and nonfinancial reporting and disclosure
  • Securities and accounting regulation
  • Information intermediaries
  • Shareholder engagement and activism
Maggie Singorahardjo
Maggie Singorahardjo

Accounting

  • Incorporating technology in teaching
  • Increasing student engagement within classrooms
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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Nasser Spear
Professor Nasser Spear

GL Wood Chair of Accounting

Financial Accounting

  • The effect of accounting on managerial decision making
  • The role of accounting in equity and assets valuations
Phone number +61 3 834 47498
Email nasser@unimelb.edu.au
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Maiying Sui
Dr Maiying Sui

Lecturer

Financial Accounting

  • Financial reporting and disclosure
  • Analysts' forecasts
  • Auditing quality
Michael Taouk
Dr Michael Taouk

Lecturer

Commercial Law; Management Accounting

  • Photovoltaic industry
Eu-Jin Teo
Mr Eu-Jin Teo

Senior Lecturer

Commercial Law

  • Accounting and the law
  • Commercial law
  • Current legal issues
  • Government law
  • Taxation law
Phone number +61 4 8344 3466
Email ejteo@unimelb.edu.au
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Demi Wang
Ms Di (Demi) Wang

Lecturer

Financial Accounting

  • Technology enabled teaching innovations
  • Teaching and learning strategies in financial accounting
  • Gamification
  • Academic identity
Martin Weisner
Dr Martin Weisner

Senior Lecturer

Information Systems

  • Enterprise risk management
  • Accounting information systems
  • Construal level theory
  • Experimental research
  • Auditing
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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Qingbo Yuan
Mr Qingbo Yuan

Senior Lecturer

Financial Accounting

  • Accounting quality
  • Corporate disclosure
  • Corporate finance
  • Corporate governance
  • International accounting
Phone number +61 3 903 55899
Email yuanq@unimelb.edu.au
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