Australian Accounting Hall of Fame
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame award recognises individuals who are making or have made a significant contribution to the advancement of accounting in Australia Brad Potter, CAIP Director
Hall of Fame Inductees
2026
Jayne Godfrey
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Jayne Maree Godfrey as a researcher, educator, university administrator and accounting standard setter of the highest order.
Ian McPhee AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Ian McPhee as a senior public servant, auditor and standard setter of the highest order.
2025
Catherine Livingstone AC
The Australian Accounting Hall of fame honours Catherine Livingstone as an accountant, senior executive, non-executive director and advisor.
Ian Mackintosh AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Ian Mackintosh as a practitioner, regulator and leading standard setter who contributed substantially to the establishment of the institutional framework encompassing private and public sector financial and non-financial reporting.
2024
Merran Kelsall AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Merran Horne Kelsall as a practitioner, high officer holder, standard setter and regulator.
Bob Officer AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Robert Rupert Officer as a scholar, educator, senior university administrator and advisor to government.
Terry Shevlin
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Terrence James Shevlin as an eminent accounting scholar and thinker.
2023
Fiona Campbell
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Fiona Margaret Campbell as an auditing standard setter and practitioner.
Peter Easton
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Peter Douglas Easton as an eminent accounting scholar and thinker.
Garrett Fitzgerald CMG
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Garrett Ernest Fitzgerald as a war veteran, pioneer, practitioner, office holder and leader of the accounting profession.
Rachel Grimes AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Rachel Grimes as a high office holder, standard setter and practitioner.
Kim Langfield-Smith
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Kim Michelle Langfield-Smith as a researcher, educator and university administrator of the highest order.
Stephen Taylor
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Stephen Leslie Taylor as a scholar, thinker, educator and university administrator of the highest order.
2022
Ches Baragwanath AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Chesleigh Baragwanath as accountant, auditor and public servant.
Patricia Dechow
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Patricia Dechow as a thinker, eminent scholar and teacher.
2021
David Boymal AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours David Garry Boymal as an international accounting standard setter, office holder and practitioner.
Bill Edge
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours William Rodney Edge as an auditing standard setter, accounting and auditing regulator and practitioner.
Stewart Leech
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Stewart Andrew Leech as a visionary scholar, educator and office holder of the highest order. In doing so it acknowledges his extraordinary contribution to the discipline of accounting information systems.
2020
Michael Andrew AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Michael Andrew as a practitioner, senior executive and much-lauded servant in the cause of combating the black market economy.
Lee Parker
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Lee Parker as an eminent scholar, theorist, educator and office-holder of the highest order.
Stephen Penman
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Stephen Penman as an eminent accounting researcher and thinker.
Ruth Picker AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Ruth Picker as a practitioner, mentor, standard setter and expert on International Financial Reporting Standards.
2019
Wai Fong Chua AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Wai Fong Chua as a scholar and administrator of the highest order.
Graham Peirson
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Graham Peirson as a scholar, office holder and distinguished standard setter.
Roger Simnett AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Roger Simnett as an audit researcher, educator, and audit and assurance standard setter of the highest order.
2018
Maggie Abernethy AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame recognises Maggie Abernethy as a scholar, mentor and senior administrator of the highest order.
Ray Ball
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Raymond John Ball as an eminent accounting researcher and thinker.
Ron Weber AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Ron Weber as a scholar, theorist, educator and office-holder of the highest order. In doing so it acknowledges his extraordinary dual contributions to the disciplines of accounting and information systems.
2017
John Bishop AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours John Bishop as a practitioner, standard setter and office holder.
Peter Brownell
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Peter Brownell as a researcher, author, mentor and champion of doctoral programmes in accounting.
George Foster AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours George Foster as a widely recognised and hugely respected researcher, author, educator and advisor.
Warren McGregor
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Warren McGregor as an eminent leader in promoting and enabling high quality financial reporting for global capital markets. In so doing it recognises him as a leading standard setter and acknowledges his international stature in this field.
2016
John Gunn CBE
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours John Angus Lancaster Gunn as a war veteran, practitioner, office holder and eminent pioneering taxation specialist.
Michael Sharpe AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Michael John Sharpe as a practitioner, distinguished standard-setter and office-holder.
Ross L Watts
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Ross Watts as an eminent accounting researcher and thinker. In so doing it acknowledges the extraordinary impact his research output has had on the accounting research community and the accounting discipline.
2015
Sir Ronald Irish OBE
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Sir Ronald Irish as a leading practitioner of the day, author and office bearer.
Jeffrey Lucy AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame recognises Jeffrey Lucy as a practitioner, office holder and distinguished regulator.
2014
Robert Chenhall
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Robert Chenhall as an innovative researcher and thinker of the highest order. In doing so it recognises his extraordinary impact on the discipline of management accounting.
John Kenley
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame recognises John Kenley as an accounting standard setting pioneer acutely attuned to the standard setting process and possessed of a unique ability to interpret and explain complex technical matters associated with them.
Ken Wright
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame recognises Kenneth Wright as a theorist and scholar of the highest order.
2013
Allan D Barton AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Allan Douglas Barton as an educator, administrator, author and scholar of the highest order.
Kevin Stevenson AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Kevin Michael Stevenson as an administrator, mentor and standard-setter. In doing so it recognises his immense contribution to standard-setting and acknowledges his international stature in this field.
2012
Russell L Mathews AO CBE
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Russell Mathews as an innovator, educator, administrator, consultant, scholar and thinker of the highest order.
Sir Edwin Nixon CMG
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Sir Edwin Nixon as a pioneer, practitioner, administrator, author, educator and leader of the accounting profession. In so doing it recognises his extraordinary contribution to the advancement of Australian accounting over more than half a century.
Murray C Wells AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Murray Wells as an innovator, educator, administrator, scholar and thinker of the highest order.
2011
Louis Goldberg AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Lou Goldberg as an educator, theorist, thinker and scholar of the highest order. In so doing it acknowledges his international stature as an eminent accounting scholar of the twentieth century.
Kenneth H Spencer AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Kenneth H Spencer as a practitioner, office holder and accounting standard-setter.
Ken Trotman AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Ken Trotman as a researcher, author, mentor, and educator. In so doing it acknowledges academic leadership of the highest order.
2010
Elizabeth Alexander AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Elizabeth Alexander as a pioneer female practitioner, mentor, accounting and auditing standard-setter and regulator.
Philip Brown AM
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Philip Brown as an innovator, educator, mentor and scholar of the highest order.
Ray Chambers AO
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Ray Chambers as an educator, mentor, visionary, thinker and scholar of the highest order. In so doing it recognises his international stature in helping to put the Australian academy on the map and inspiring many - including his critics - to think for themselves.
Sir Alex Fitzgerald OBE
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Sir Alex Fitzgerald as a pioneer, practitioner, administrator, author, editor, educator, scholar, thinker and leader of the accounting profession. In so doing it recognises his extraordinarily broad contribution to the advancement of Australian accounting over more than half a century.
Reginald S Gynther
The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Reg Gynther as an innovator, educator, standard-setter, scholar and thinker of the highest order.
Past events
Read more about the highlights of past events and view the photo albums.
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2026 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2025 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2024 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2023 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2022 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2021 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2020 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2019 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2018 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2017 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2016 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2015 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony
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2014 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame
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2013 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame
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2012 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame
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2011 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame
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2010 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame