Academic Staff

Our academics are recognised as leaders in Accounting disciplines.

  1. Professor Margaret Abernethy

    Sir Douglas Copland Chair of Commerce
    Director, Melbourne Centre for Corporate Governance and Regulation

    Management Accounting

    • Corporate governance: Board quality, CEO succession
    • Executive compensation
    • Performance measurement
    • Management control system design

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 47655

  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

    +61 3 8344 5663

  3. Keith Alfredson

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  4. Shannon Anderson

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  5. Professor Mary Barth

    Honorary Professorial Fellow

    Department of Accounting

  6. Professor Gary Biddle

    Financial Accounting

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

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 8344 9807

  7. 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

    +61 3 8344 4076; +61 0408 774 330

  8. Mr Noel Boys

    Teaching Fellow

    Financial Accounting

    • Development of online teaching resources

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 43416

  9. Professor Michael Bray

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  10. Associate Professor Albie Brooks

    Management Accounting

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

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 45305

  11. Gunther Burghardt

    Department of Accounting

  12. Geoffrey Burrows

    Accounting

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 8344 2162

  13. Fiona Campbell

    Department of Accounting

  14. 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

    834 44039

  15. Mr Wayne Coetzee

    Teaching Fellow

    Auditing

    • Audit Quality
    • Development of online audit education

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 9035 8143

  16. Associate Professor Philip Collier

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  17. Mr Greg Cusack

    Teaching Fellow

    Financial Accounting

    • Teaching and learning strategies in accounting

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 47466

  18. 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

    +61 3 8344 3413

  19. 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

    +61 3 834 47507

  20. Judith Downes

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  21. Mr Matt Dyki

    Teaching Fellow

    Financial Accounting/Info Systems

    • Online accounting education

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 47537

  22. 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

  23. Dr Estha Gondowijoyo

    Senior Lecturer

    Department of Accounting

  24. 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

    +61 3 8344 8963

  25. 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

    +61 3 8344 7662

  26. Ms Jane Hronsky

    Lecturer

    Auditing

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

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 45301

  27. 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

    +61 3 8344 2152

  28. Dr Xue Jia

    Senior Lecturer

    Financial Accounting

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

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 9035 4056

  29. Dr Like Jiang

    Senior Lecturer

    Auditing

    • Corporate governance
    • External audit
    • Internal audit

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 8344 0035

  30. Dr Jagjit Kaur

    Teaching Fellow

    Financial Accounting

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

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 47665

  31. Annette Kimmitt

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  32. 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

    +61 3 8344 9806

  33. Professor David Larcker

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  34. Dr Gladys Lee

    Senior Lecturer

    Auditing

    • Corporate fraud
    • Whistle-blowing

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 8344 6006

  35. Stewart Leech

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 8344 5314

  36. 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

  37. Ms Joana Linggo Liong

    Tutor in Charge

    Accounting

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 47614

  38. 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

    +61 3 834 48563

  39. James MacKenzie

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  40. 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

    +61 3 834 45309

  41. Tom McLeod

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  42. Professor Vic Naiker

    Program Director (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

    +61 3 8344 8454

  43. Dr Sujay Nair

    Senior Lecturer

    Management Accounting

    • Performance management
    • Incentive systems

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 53799

  44. Peter Nash

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  45. Dean Newlan

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  46. Professor Robert Nicol

    Emeritus Professor

    Department of Accounting

  47. Scott North

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  48. Des Pearson

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  49. Ruth Picker

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  50. 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

    +61 3 8344 7539

  51. Associate 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

    +61 3 834 44989

  52. 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

    +61 3 8344 9361

  53. Brett Rix

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  54. 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

    +61 3 8344 1171

  55. Maggie Singorahardjo

    Accounting

    • Incorporating technology in teaching
    • Increasing student engagement within classrooms

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 47711

  56. Douglas Skinner

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  57. 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

    +61 3 9035 7702

  58. 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

    +61 3 834 47498

  59. John Stanhope

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  60. Mr Kevin Stevenson

    Melbourne Enterprise Professor

    Department of Accounting

    834 48273

  61. Ms Celia Tang

    Sessional Lecturer

    Department of Accounting

    903 55536

  62. Mr Eu-Jin Teo

    Senior Lecturer

    Commercial Law

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

    Department of Accounting

    +61 4 8344 3466

  63. Ms Demi Wang

    Teaching Assistant

    Financial Accounting

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

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 40451

  64. Dr Martin Weisner

    Senior Lecturer

    Information Systems

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

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 46556

  65. Mr Paul Wiseman

    Lecturer

    Department of Accounting

    834 45544

  66. Professor Kenneth Wright

    Executive-in-Residence

    Department of Accounting

  67. Ms Sarah Yang Spencer

    Management Accounting

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

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 834 40928

  68. Mr Qingbo Yuan

    Senior Lecturer

    Financial Accounting

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

    Department of Accounting

    +61 3 903 55899

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