Emeritus Professor Graham Peirson

MEc Adel FCPA

Graham Peirson, who was recruited many years ago from South Australia, undertakes teaching and research in the area of financial accounting and reporting. In particular, he is interested in issues relating to accounting standard-setting and the regulation of financial reporting. He was a member of the Accounting Standards Board of the Australian Accounting Research Foundation before the Board's merger with the Accounting Standards Review Board in 1988.

From 1979 to 1989, he was a member of Council of the Victorian Division of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, serving as President in 1985/86. He was the inaugural Chairman of the Society's External Reporting Centre of Excellence and served on the CoE in that capacity until 1999. He was a member of the Public Sector Accounting Standards Board of the Australian Accounting Research Foundation, from 1989 until it merged with the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) in 2000. He was a member of the newly reconstituted AASB until he retired in 2002.

Business finance is also an area in which he works, as evidenced by his co-authorship of Essentials of Business Finance (in its first edition) and Business Finance (now in its tenth edition). He is also co-author of Issues in Financial Accounting (currently in its thirteenth edition), Financial Accounting Theory, Financial Accounting: An Introduction (in its fifth edition). In addition, he has published widely in journals in Australia and overseas. He is the former Director of the Department's Centre for Research in Accounting and Finance.