Research supervisors in Accounting and Finance
Research interests
As of January 2008
Dr Balasingham Balachandran
Behavioural Finance, Market Efficiency, Market Anomalies and Market Microstructure; Price Adjustment Process and Asset Pricing; Earnings Quality and Earnings Management and their impact on long term price reactions.
Professor Keryn Chalmers
Financial accounting and financial reporting matters including: examining firms' discretionary accounting policies, accounting valuation methods, and disclosure choices; the impact of accounting regulation on firm value; executive remuneration and corporate governance.
Professor Robert Chenhall
Relating management accounting systems to the strategic and operational needs of organizations.
Professor Paul Collier
Behavioural consequences of accounting, broadly defined. Ethnographic and case studies in management accounting and control systems, financial and non-financial performance management, knowledge management and risk management in both the private and public sectors, with an emphasis on policing. The links between the performance management, risk management and knowledge management literatures, emphasising the role of governance in balancing the ‘accounting regime’ with alternative modes of management control.
Assoc Professor Michael Dempsey
Behaviour of risky assets; the cost of capital; option pricing.
Dr Piyadasa Edirisuriya
Banking performance in emerging markets, corruption and financial deregulation and financial developments in South Asia.
Professor Robert Faff
Asset pricing; risk modelling; managed fund performance; behavioral finance; corporate governance; risk management.
Dr Victor Fang
Interest rate swaps and credit risks, currency risk management, term structure of interest rates and models, swap spreads and credit spreads analysis and modelling volatility.
Dr Aldonio Ferreira
Performance measurement and management; Management control systems; Contingency theory; Strategic aspects of Management Accounting; Supply chain
Management; Environmental management accounting; Not-for-profit organizations.
Assoc Professor Grant Gay
The audit expectation gap; audit reporting; internal control, audit risk and assurance framework; consolidations and accounting for company groups.
Assoc Professor Roger Gay
Stochastic processes in finance; asset valuation; pricing the cost of bearing risk; general and life insurance; financial planning and superannuation.
Dr Philip Gharghori
Asset pricing, with a focus on the risk-based nature of contemporary asset pricing models. Funds management, with a focus on fund performance. Default risk measurement. Capital markets research, with a focus on the relationship between firm characteristics and earnings management.
Professor Jayne Godfrey
Earnings management: theoretical explanations and statistical modelling; role of accounting in transferring wealth between contracting parties and in increasing the value of the firm; impact of accounting regulation on firms' financing and investment decisions; impact of accounting regulation on firm value. Auditor choice and auditor industry specialization.
Dr Mahendra Goyal
Financial Accounting and Reporting: For example, performance indicators, EPS and cashflow reporting, organisational, environmental and behavioural aspects affecting organisations' management and accounting information systems and control. Recently, Mahendra has also been involved with the Audit fee determinants in the South Asia region. Other research interests include: financial reporting including cash flow, EPS, audit fee determination, and corporate governance.
Dr Abdel K Halabi
Accounting education, the use of technology in teaching accounting, not for profit reporting.
Dr Mohammad Hoque
Bank Management, Loan default, corporate governance, Islamic banking and finance, and microfinance.
Professor Francis In
Asset pricing theory, time-series modeling of financial market volatility, cross-listing and price discovery, optimal consumption and portfolio choices, performance of mutual fund and hedge management, dynamic modeling of credit default swap spreads, credit risk modeling, micro-banking, bank mergers and consolidation, and wavelet analysis in finance.
Dr Petko Kalev
Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), Seasonal Public Offerings (SEOs); Financial Tunneling; Market Anomalies & Behavioural Issues; Informed Trading; Liquidity; Order Submission Strategies; Volume-Volatility Relation; Price Discovery; Price Limits; Information Arrivals & MDH.
Professor Kim Langfield-Smith
The design and implementation of performance measurement systems and management control systems; behavioural implications of management accounting systems.
Dr Wei Lu
Accounting history, value relevance of intangible asset measurement and
disclosures, assets revaluation across different countries,
globalisation of accounting standards and corporate governance.
Dr Vijaya Marisetty
Funds management; performance measurement of managed funds; market micro structure; Asian capital markets and behavioural finance.
Assoc Professor Paul Mather
The use of covenants in debt contracts and related debt contracting processes; the role of corporate governance in mitigating agency problems; behavioural research in financial accounting; the use of financial accounting information in contracting; earnings and impression management in financial reports.
Dr Patty McNicholas
The critical and social analysis of accounting with a focus on accountancy and gender/ethnicity/culture/class issues. Related to this are issues concerning environmental accounting, sustainability reporting, stakeholder engagement, and social and environmental accountability. As my teaching is primarily in the area of financial accounting more recently I have become involved in projects concerning accounting for income taxes.
Professor Imad Moosa
Areas of interest are:
1. International Financial Management
2. Financial Forecasting
3. Financial and Operational Risk Management
4. International Monetary Economics
5. Financial Markets
6. Monetary and Financial Aspects of Economic Development.
Dr Robyn Moroney
Auditing primarily; Behavioural (auditor decision-making processes); Economics of auditing fields (fraud, corporate governance, industry specialisation).
Professor Farshid Navissi
Financial accounting/capital markets areas including Earnings Quality (Earnings management, Earnings persistence, Earnings response coefficient, Accruals quality) Corporate Governance, Securities price effects of regulatory changes, and application of auditing issues in financial accounting.
Dr Ruvendra Nandan
Management accounting and control systems, particularly changes in MACS in historical, political and social contexts; Multiple roles of MACS in organisations, particularly, budgets in sense making and sense giving roles; Small accounting practice issues in rural and regional contexts; Social and environmental reporting issues.
Dr Kok Fai Phoon
Empirical finance focusing on asset pricing and the risk and performance management of hedge funds.
Dr Micheala Rankin
Financial reporting and corporate governance, executive remuneration, and the regulation and practice of social and environmental accountability and reporting.
Professor Janek Ratnatunga
Management accounting; small business entrepreneurship; financial management; accounting in competitive industries; the accounting-marketing interface.
Professor Michael Skully
Bank and other financial institutions in Australia and the Asia Pacific; banking efficiency; financial development, banking and insurance, microfinance; Islamic banking and finance; prudential regulation; Corporate governance of financial institutions; dividend reinvestment plans and imputation; financial centres and international banking.
Assoc Professor David Smith
Management control systems; performance measures.
Dr Ting Yean Tan
International capital movements; options and futures.
Dr George Tanewski
Capital markets and family business; voluntary audits, monitoring and control in SMEs; corporate governance issues in family controlled businesses; performance measurement in SMEs; business advice to SMEs.
Assoc Professor Madhu Veeraraghavan
My research interests are in the following areas:
Asset Pricing (Empirical and Theoretical)
Behavioural Finance
Corporate Governance
Evaluation of Mutual Fund and Hedge Fund Managers
Dr Jayasinghe Wickramanayake
Superannuation and pension funding; portfolio management and theory; arbitrage pricing theory; funds management; corporate finance and banking.
Dr Carla Wilkin
Enterprise systems and information technology use in accounting education; accounting information systems and management control; ICT use in knowledge based economies; decision support technologies.
Assoc Professor Carolyn Windsor
Auditor Independence, ethical decision-making, organisational justice and career advancement of women in accounting firms, family balance issues in accounting firms, accounting issues and organisation culture, national culture.
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