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. 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

  4. 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

  5. Dr Jonathan Black

    Senior Lecturer

    Auditing/Financial Accounting

    • Disclosure incentives
    • Fair Value Accounting
    • Corporate Governance
    • Accounting Misconduct and Regulation

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number 03 8344 7230 Email jon.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 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

  8. Associate Professor Geoffrey Burrows

    Accounting

    Department of Accounting

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

  9. Mr Danny Burton

    Lecturer

    Commercial Law; Financial Accounting

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

    Department of Accounting

    Email danny.burton@unimelb.edu.au

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Mr Bob Cornick

    Lecturer (Education Focussed)

    Department of Accounting

    Email robert.cornick@unimelb.edu.au

  13. 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

  14. 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

    Department of Accounting

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

  15. 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

  16. Mr Matt Dyki

    Teaching Fellow

    Financial Accounting; Information Systems

    • Online accounting education

    Department of Accounting

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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. Ms Lisa Greig

    Teaching Specialist (Education Focussed)

    Department of Accounting

    Email lisa.greig@unimelb.edu.au

  20. 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

  21. 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)

    Department of Accounting

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

  22. 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

  23. Associate Professor 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

  24. 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

    Department of Accounting

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

  25. Mr Warren Lee

    Tutor
    Assistant Lecturer

    Financial Accounting

    • Innovative teaching strategies for student engagement
    • Game-based learning
    • Aligning curriculum with professional skills
    • Taxation law

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number +61 3 9035 5613 Email warren.lee@unimelb.edu.au

  26. Professor Stewart Leech

    • Accounting Information Systems
    • AI in accounting, auditing, and insolvency/corporate recovery
    • ERP Systems

    Department of Accounting

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

  27. 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

  28. Ms Joana Linggo Liong

    Tutor in Charge

    Accounting

    Department of Accounting

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

  29. Dr Junhao Liu

    Senior Lecturer

    Centre for Asian Business and Economics

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

    Department of Accounting

    Email junhao.liu@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert Find an Expert

  30. 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

  31. Dr Rebecca Mattocks

    Lecturer

    Auditing

    • Audit quality
    • Audit judgement and behaviour
    • Auditor reporting
    • Sustainability Assurance

    Department of Accounting

    Email rebecca.mattocks@unimelb.edu.au

  32. 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

  33. Dr Tasneem Mohammed

    Lecturer (Education Focussed)

    Financial Accounting

    • Financial Reporting and Disclosure
    • Corporate Governance
    • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

    Department of Accounting

    Email tasneem.mohammed@unimelb.edu.au

  34. Professor Vic Naiker

    Deputy Head of Department (Doctoral Program in Accounting)

    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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

    Department of Accounting

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

  38. 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

    Department of Accounting

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

  39. Ms Michelle Sabe

    Lecturer

    • Authentic learning and assessment
    • Student engagement in large group settings
    • Business & taxation law
    • Decision-making in accounting

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number 03 9035 5381 Email sabem@unimelb.edu.au

  40. Associate Professor Stefan Schantl

    Financial Accounting

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

    Department of Accounting

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

  41. Ms 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

  42. 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

    Department of Accounting

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

  43. 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

    Department of Accounting

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

  44. Dr Maiying Sui

    Lecturer

    Financial Accounting

    • Financial reporting and disclosure
    • Analysts' forecasts
    • Auditing quality

    Department of Accounting

    Phone number 03 9035 4625 Email maiying.sui@unimelb.edu.au

  45. Dr Michael Taouk

    Lecturer

    Commercial Law; Management Accounting

    • Photovoltaic industry

    Department of Accounting

    Email michael.taouk@unimelb.edu.au

  46. 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

  47. Ms Di (Demi) Wang

    Lecturer

    Financial Accounting

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

    Department of Accounting

    Email demi.wang@unimelb.edu.au

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. Dr 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

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