Academic Staff

Our academics are recognised as leaders in Accounting disciplines.

  1. 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

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 47655 Email m.abernethy@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  2. 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

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 5663 Email rosemary.addis@unimelb.edu.au

  3. Keith Alfredson

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  4. Professor Gary Biddle

    Financial Accounting

    • Corporate governance
    • Value creation
    • Valuation
    • Management compensation
    • Performance metrics
    • Economic value added (EVA®)

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 9807 Email g.biddle@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  5. 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

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 4076; +61 0408 774 330 Email stuart.black@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  6. Mr Noel Boys

    Teaching Fellow

    Financial Accounting

    • Development of online teaching resources

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 43416 Email nboys@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  7. Professor Michael Bray

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

    Email michael.bray@theiirc.org

  8. Associate Professor Albie Brooks

    Management Accounting

    • Corporate governance issues
    • Development of teaching case-studies in management accounting and control

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 45305 Email albieb@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  9. Gunther Burghardt

    Department of Accounting

  10. Geoffrey Burrows

    Accounting

    Department of Accounting

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

  11. Fiona Campbell

    Department of Accounting

  12. 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

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number 834 44039 Email pecobbin@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  13. Mr Wayne Coetzee

    Teaching Fellow

    Auditing

    • Audit Quality
    • Development of online audit education

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 9035 8143 Email wayne.coetzee@unimelb.edu.au

  14. Mr Greg Cusack

    Teaching Fellow

    Financial Accounting

    • Teaching and learning strategies in accounting

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 47466 Email gjcusack@unimelb.edu.au

  15. Professor Michael Davern

    Information Systems

    • Accounting information systems and managerial control
    • Behavioural/business processes perspectives in information systems
    • Business value of IT
    • Enterprise and operational risk management
    • Managerial decision making/decision support

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 3413 Email m.davern@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  16. Dr Tongqing (Tony) Ding

    Senior Lecturer (Engagement/Research)

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

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 47507 Email tongqing.ding@unimelb.edu.au

  17. Judith Downes

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  18. Mr Matt Dyki

    Teaching Fellow

    Financial Accounting/Info Systems

    • Online accounting education

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 47537 Email mdyki@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  19. Dr Patrick Ferguson

    Senior Lecturer

    Management Accounting

    • Performance measurement and evaluation
    • Performance feedback
    • The provision of incentives in firms
    • Sports economics
    • Contest design

    Department of Accounting

    Email pfer@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  20. Dr Estha Gondowijoyo

    Senior Lecturer

    Department of Accounting

    Email gondowijoyop@unimelb.edu.au

  21. Professor Ian Gow

    Director, Melbourne Centre for Corporate Governance and Regulation

    Accounting

    • Corporate governance
    • Executive compensation
    • Activist investors
    • Valuation
    • Use of information in capital markets

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 8963 Email ian.gow@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  22. 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)

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 7662 Email j.grafton@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  23. Ms Jane Hronsky

    Lecturer

    Auditing

    • Audit judgement (communication issues in financial and audit reporting)

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 45301 Email janejfh@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  24. Dr Chung-Yu Hung

    Senior Lecturer

    Management Accounting

    • Management accounting
    • Internal information asymmetry
    • The role of agents' heterogeneity in control systems (managerial discretion, performance evaluation and compensation, organisational designs)

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 2152 Email chung-yu.hung@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  25. Dr Xue Jia

    Senior Lecturer

    Financial Accounting

    • Information economics
    • Voluntary and mandatory disclosures
    • Cost of capital
    • Heterogeneous investors in capital markets

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 9035 4056 Email xue.jia@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  26. Dr Like Jiang

    Senior Lecturer

    Auditing

    • Corporate governance
    • External audit
    • Internal audit

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 0035 Email like.jiang@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  27. Dr Jagjit Kaur

    Teaching Fellow

    Financial Accounting

    • Financial accounting
    • Utilising argument mapping to enhance critical thinking skills of graduates

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 47665 Email jkaur@unimelb.edu.au

  28. Annette Kimmitt

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  29. Professor Flora Kuang

    Financial Accounting

    http://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/cabe

    • Corporate governance and reporting quality
    • Executive compensation and performance evaluation
    • Forensic accounting
    • Social networks and social capital

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 9806 Email flora.kuang@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  30. Stewart Leech

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 5314 Email saleech@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  31. 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

    Department of Accounting

    Email alillis@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  32. Ms Joana Linggo Liong

    Tutor in Charge

    Accounting

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 47614 Email jlliong@unimelb.edu.au

  33. 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)

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 48563 Email dlyle@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  34. James MacKenzie

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  35. 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

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 45309 Email wmckeown@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  36. Patrick McLay

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  37. Tom McLeod

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  38. Professor Vic Naiker

    Program Director (Doctoral Program in Accounting)
    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

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 8454 Email vic.naiker@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  39. Dr Sujay Nair

    Senior Lecturer

    Management Accounting

    • Performance management
    • Incentive systems

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 53799 Email sujay.nair@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  40. Peter Nash

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  41. Dean Newlan

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

    Email dnewlan@mcgrathnicol.com

  42. Scott North

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  43. Chair Audit and Risk Committee, Member Governance & Strategy Committee Des Pearson

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  44. Ruth Picker

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  45. 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

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 7539 Email mpinnuck@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  46. Associate Professor Brad Potter

    Head of Department

    Financial Accounting

    http://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/accounting/caip

    • 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

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 44989 Email hod-accounting@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  47. Associate Professor Bo Qin

    Financial Accounting

    • Executive compensation
    • Corporate governance
    • Financial reporting
    • Say on pay
    • Textual analysis
    • CEO succession
    • Top management team

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 9361 Email b.qin@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  48. Brett Rix

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  49. Dr Stefan Schantl

    Senior Lecturer

    Financial Accounting

    • Asset securitisation
    • CEO compensation
    • Information and financial intermediation (financial analysts, credit rating agencies, banking)
    • Securities market & accounting regulation
    • Stock repurchasing
    • Theoretical research on financial and managerial accounting issues (earnings management, accounting choices, budgeting)

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 8344 1171 Email stefan.schantl@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  50. Maggie Singorahardjo

    Accounting

    • Incorporating technology in teaching
    • Increasing student engagement within classrooms

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 47711 Email maggie.singorahardjo@unimelb.edu.au

  51. Professor Naomi Soderstrom

    Deputy Head of Department

    Management Accounting

    • Archival managerial accounting (health care, environment)
    • Corporate social responsibility issues
    • Empirical managerial accounting with an emphasis on the health care industry

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 9035 7702 Email naomiss@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  52. Professor Nasser Spear

    Deputy Dean, GL Wood Chair of Accounting

    Financial Accounting

    • The effect of accounting on managerial decision making
    • The role of accounting in equity and assets valuations

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 47498 Email nasser@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  53. John Stanhope

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  54. Enterprise Professor Kevin Stevenson

    Department of Accounting

  55. Ms Celia Tang

    Sessional Lecturer

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number 903 55536 Email celia.tang@unimelb.edu.au

  56. Mr Eu-Jin Teo

    Senior Lecturer

    Commercial Law

    • Accounting and the law
    • Commercial law
    • Current legal issues
    • Government law
    • Taxation law

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 4 8344 3466 Email ejteo@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  57. Ms Demi Wang

    Teaching Assistant

    Financial Accounting

    • Information technology enabled teaching innovations
    • Teaching and learning strategies in financial accounting

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 40451 Email di.wang1@unimelb.edu.au

  58. Dr Martin Weisner

    Senior Lecturer

    Information Systems

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

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 46556 Email martin.weisner@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  59. Mr Paul Wiseman

    Lecturer

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number 834 45544 Email paul.wiseman@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  60. Ms Sarah Yang Spencer

    Management Accounting

    • Scholarship of teaching and learning
    • Higher education assessment
    • Corporate governance
    • Management control system
    • Organisational learning

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 834 40928 Email s.yangspencer@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  61. Mr Qingbo Yuan

    Senior Lecturer

    Financial Accounting

    • Accounting quality
    • Corporate disclosure
    • Corporate finance
    • Corporate governance
    • International accounting

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 903 55899 Email yuanq@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  62. Kurt Zumwalt

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

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