Research
The Department of Accounting is committed to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge.
Our academic staff publish research that develops, tests or advances accounting theories and practice. We have a critical mass of research-active staff in a number of key areas of the discipline, who contribute to the research profile of the Department. Significant resources are allocated to support these contributions.
We also foster strong international alliances through the appointment of eminent visiting scholars, joint research grants and active research programs.
Our key areas of study include:
- Markets-based accounting research; contracting theory and research; earnings management; valuation; international financial reporting.
- Economics of auditing and auditor behaviour, the pricing of audits, audit quality, audit judgement, the audit market, corporate governance, business forensics.
- Accounting information systems, decision making in corporate recovery, intelligent decision aids, enterprise resource planning systems, assimilation of information systems, behaviour in information environments, information valuation and use, electronic commerce, escalation theory, organisation impacts, reliance measurement.
- Performance management, performance impact of corporate downsizing, strategic cost management, strategy implementation, management control system design, organisational behaviour, interorganisational networks.
Research degrees
The Department's research higher degree is offered through the Graduate School of Business and Economics.
