Research supervisors in Accounting and Finance

Risk Management and Derivatives, Risk Effect of Derivatives, Modelling Interest Rate and Foreign Currency Risks, Asian and Emerging Markets, Financial Crisis and Capital Market Research.

Main research interest in the areas of Audit and Assurance Services and Corporate Governance. Specific research interests include the market for assurance services, methods of enhancing audit quality, auditor communication, and related corporate governance mechanisms including risk management, internal control and internal audit. In the finance area interests include IPO underpricing, long run performance and market cycles.

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.

Management control and management accounting, broadly defined to include non-financial performance measurement and informal controls. Ethnographic and organizational case studies in these areas as well as knowledge management and risk management in both the private and public sectors. The links between performance management, risk management and knowledge management, emphasising the role of governance in balancing accounting information with alternative modes of management control.

Economics of auditing; Determinants of audit planning, production and fees; Public sector auditing; Auditor accountability and independence.

Banking performance in emerging markets, corruption and financial deregulation and financial developments in South Asia.

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.

The audit expectation gap; audit reporting; internal control, audit risk and assurance framework; consolidations and accounting for company groups.

Asset pricing, with a focus on the risk-based nature of contemporary asset pricing models. Funds management, with a focus on fund performance and style. Default risk modelling and the impact of default risk on asset prices. Stock splits and takeovers and their short-term and long-term price impact. Capital markets research and water accounting.

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: accounting education gap and corporate governance.

Credit crunch, stock market, bank failures, loan loss, corporate governance, Islamic banking and microfinance.

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.

The design and implementation of performance measurement systems and management control systems; control systems in inter-organizational relationships; behavioural aspects of management accounting systems.

Accounting history, value relevance of intangible asset measurement and disclosures, assets revaluation across different countries, comparative international financial reporting, globalisation of accounting standards and corporate governance.

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, social and environmental accountability and climate change.

Initial public offerings, seasoned equity offers and various aspects of the use of trading simulation software in teaching

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.

Financial reporting and corporate governance, executive remuneration, and the regulation and practice of social and environmental accountability and reporting.

My research interests span behavioural issue in management control system design aspects such as performance measurement and incentives. I'm also interested in escalation of commitment of investment projects.

Management control systems (MCS); performance measurement; behavioural implications of the use and design of MCS, management control in NGOs.

The Economics of Financial Accounting, Auditing and Corporate Governance and the implications for Capital Markets. Includes topics around Earnings Quality, Audit Quality, Audit Market Competition, Accounting and Disclosure Regulation.

International capital movements; options and futures.

Short-term interest rate modeling, FX modeling, high-frequency (tick-by-tick) data modeling, credit risk modeling, regime switching model, dynamic of volume, return and volatility during crisis period. Volatility and Skewness linkages. Probability of Insider Trading in Stock market.

Superannuation and pension funding; portfolio formation and funds management; banking; multi-factor modelling; corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions and small and medium industry finance.