Michaela Rankin

BBus (Hons) USQ, MEc UNE, PhD RMIT

Michaela joined Monash in January 2007 and is Course Director of the Master of Professional Accounting and the Master of Practicing Accounting degrees. Prior to joining Monash, Michaela held the position of senior lecturer at RMIT University for six years and has also lectured at the University of Southern Queensland, where she was awarded the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia Award for Teaching Excellence in 1998.

Michaela is an active researcher, who has recently completed her Phd, in which she examined the determinants of executive remuneration of the top management team in Australian public companies.  

Recent Publications:
M. Rankin, M. Silvester, M. Vallely and A. Wyatt, “An Analysis of the Implications of Diversity for Students’ First Level Accounting Performance”, Accounting and Finance, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 365-393, 2003
C. Deegan, M. Rankin and J. Tobin, “An Examination of the Corporate Social Disclosures of BHP from 1983 – 1997: A Test of Legitimacy Theory”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 312-343, 2002
C. Deegan, M. Rankin and P. Voght, “Firms’ Disclosure Reactions to Major Social Incidents Australian Evidence”, Accounting Forum, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 101-130, 2000
C. Deegan and M. Rankin, “The Environmental Reporting Expectations Gap: Australian Evidence”, British Accounting Review, Vol. 31, pp. 313-346, 1999
C. Deegan and M. Rankin, “The Materiality of Environmental Information to Users of Annual Reports”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 562-583, 1997
C. Deegan and M. Rankin “Do Australian Companies Report Environmental News Objectively? An Analysis of Environmental Disclosures by Firms Successfully Prosecuted by the Environmental Protection Authority”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 52-69, 1996