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
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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
Phone number +61 3 8344 5663
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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
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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
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Noel Boys
Mr Noel Boys

Teaching Fellow

Financial Accounting

  • Development of online teaching resources
Phone number +61 3 834 43416
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Albie Brooks
Professor Albie Brooks

Management Accounting

  • Corporate governance issues
  • Development of teaching case-studies in management accounting and control
Phone number +61 3 834 45305
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Geoffrey Burrows
Associate Professor Geoffrey Burrows

Accounting

Phone number +61 3 8344 2162
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Danny Burton
Mr 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
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Wayne Coetzee
Mr Wayne Coetzee

Teaching Fellow

Auditing

  • Audit Quality
  • Development of online audit education
Phone number +61 3 9035 8143
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Mr Bob Cornick

Lecturer (Education Focussed)

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Greg Cusack
Mr Greg Cusack

Teaching Fellow

Financial Accounting

  • Teaching and learning strategies in accounting
Phone number +61 3 834 47466
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ms 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Warren Lee
Mr Warren Lee

Tutor
Assistant Lecturer

Financial Accounting

  • Innovative teaching strategies for student engagement
  • Game-based learning
  • Aligning curriculum with professional skills
  • Taxation law
Phone number +61 3 9035 5613
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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
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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
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Joana Linggo Liong
Ms Joana Linggo Liong

Tutor in Charge

Accounting

Phone number +61 3 834 47614
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sujay Nair
Dr Sujay Nair

Senior Lecturer

Management Accounting

  • Performance management
  • Incentive systems
Phone number +61 3 834 53799
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Matthew Pinnuck
Professor Matthew Pinnuck

Matthew Pinnuck is a Professor of Financial Accounting in the Department of Accounting. His research examines corporate financial performance and reporting, including earnings quality, financial statement analysis, fund manager behaviour, and the reliability of greenhouse-gas disclosures.

Phone number +61 3 8344 7539
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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
Phone number +61 3 834 44989
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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
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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
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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
Phone number +61 3 8344 1171
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Maggie Singorahardjo
Ms Maggie Singorahardjo

Accounting

  • Incorporating technology in teaching
  • Increasing student engagement within classrooms
Phone number +61 3 834 47711
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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
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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
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Maiying Sui
Dr Maiying Sui

Lecturer

Financial Accounting

  • Financial reporting and disclosure
  • Analysts' forecasts
  • Auditing quality
Phone number 03 9035 4625
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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
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Nam Tran
Associate Professor Nam Tran

Honorary (Principal Fellow)

Nam Tran is an Honorary Principal Fellow and Associate Professor of Accounting at Melbourne Business School. His research examines financial reporting, earnings management, corporate social responsibility, managerial perceptions of competition, and the financing and performance of mergers and acquisitions.

  • Financial Accounting
  • Earnings Management
  • Corportate Social Responsibility
  • Competition and Investment Decisions
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Financial Disclosure
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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
Phone number +61 3 834 46556
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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
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Qingbo Yuan
Dr Qingbo Yuan

Senior Lecturer

Financial Accounting

  • Accounting quality
  • Corporate disclosure
  • Corporate finance
  • Corporate governance
  • International accounting
Phone number +61 3 903 55899
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