Accounting and Finance

Research and publications

Research

The department is committed to producing high quality and impact research that has an influence in the academic community and is relevant to industry.

The department has a vibrant research culture with regular research seminars and workshops. It offers supervision in its PhD program across accounting and finance topics with over 50 students currently enrolled. The department aims to produce research of quality, relevance and impact by:

• improving success rates in competitive research grants, including the Australian Research Council (ARC) schemes and industry sources;
• supporting and encouraging high quality publications
• providing comprehensive research support structures and resources
• subscribing to a full range of financial databases
• connecting with industry to drive applied and relevant research

Commitment to research

Research by scholars in the department is widely published in leading national and international journals including Accounting and Finance, Accounting Review, Accounting Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Review.

• Publications of Accounting and Finance staff
• Research supervisors and areas of interest
  • Current PhD students, topics and supervisors
  • Completed PhD students, topics and supervisors
• Research Seminars
• Accounting and Finance Databases

Research Symposiums

• MONFORMA
• Prato PhD Accounting and Finance Symposium
• Q Group

Research groups

• Malaysia Banking and Finance Unit
• Qualitative Research in Accounting Network (QualRAN)
• Accounting and Finance Behavioural Research Group (AFBRG)
• Asset pricing research cluster
• Banking and governance research cluster
• Corporate finance research cluster
• Funds management research cluster
• STAR Lab research cluster

Research projects

• Performance measurement, delegation and incentive compensation: Balancing the act to improve business performance
  Findings Report (PDF 254 KB)
• Carbon trading, performance measurement systems, innovation, and performance
  Findings Report - Online Survey to CPA members (PDF 647KB)
  Findings Report - Paper Survey (PDF651KB)