The Department of Accounting and Finance encourages quality research across a variety of issues, ideologies and methodologies.
Areas of research interest include (in no particular order):
- Finance
- Financial/corporate accounting and reporting and corporate governance
- Auditing and assurance services
- Management accounting
- International accounting
- Accounting and accountability including environmental reporting issues
- Accounting information systems and
- Accounting Education
A particular area of research focus within the division is the area of financial risk. The Department of Accounting & Finance contributes to this research in the areas of risks related to the integrity of capital markets, the integrity of financial statements and issues related to achieving effective corporate governance.
Further information on the diversity of research across the Department can be obtained from the Staff Research Interest page, the Recent Publications page, and the Research Seminar series information.
The Department of Accounting and Finance prides itself on the quality of its research and this excellence is reflected in a survey of research productivity in the "top-5" accounting journals over the period 1991 to 2002, which showed that the Department was ranked 4th out of 119 Asia-Pacific universities, and two faculty members were ranked in the Top 20 authors (Chan, K.C., Chen, C.R. & Cheng, L.T.W. 2005, "Ranking research productivity in accounting for Asia-Pacific universities", Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 24: 47-64.).
In 2006, the Department hosted the Annual Conference of the Asian Academic Accounting Association, an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information and research findings on accounting. The AAAA's objective is to enhance the quality of accounting education and research in Asia and to foster interaction and fellowship among accounting academics and with accounting professionals, policy makers and regulators.
