Governance, accountability and regulation

The research in the area of accountability and governance covers the breadth of the contemporary issues that face business professionals, accountants and financial managers in today's rapidly changing organisations, whether they are based in the private or non profit sectors. How organisations are governed, what determines their performance and governance arrangements, what are the risk factors facing modern organisation and how do we build capacity for the future through superannuation and wealth management? Researchers with international affiliations examine these research questions in multi jurisdictional settings.

Research programs

• Accounting, Accountability and Performance
• Corporate Governance and Behavioural Governance
• Financial and Non-Financial Disclosure and Capital Markets
• Forensics, Fraud and Risk Management
• Regulation
• Superannuation and Wealth Management

Projects

• Financial literacy and superannuation investment choice decisions
• Financial returns from New Public Management: A New Zealand perspective five years on
• The opportunistic timing of price-sensitive disclosures prior to executive stock option exercise in the Australian mining sector
• Director Identity, Identification and Information Flows as Predictors of Board Monitoring, Resource Provision and Organisational Performance
• Insights into the latest trends in accounting forensics and the critical relationship between accounting research, industry and education
• The Limits of Disclosure: Private Rights, Public Duties and the Search for Accountable Governance

People

Program leaders

Regulation

Professor Myles McGregor Lowndes

Accounting, Accountability and Performance

A/Professor Helen Irvine

Corporate Governance

A/Professor Marion Hutchinson

Behavioural Governance

A/Professor Gavin Nicholson

Financial and Non-Financial Disclosure and Capital Markets

Professor Gerry Gallery

Superannuation and Wealth Management

Professor Natalie Gallery

Accounting Education

Dr Trevor Stanley

Forensics, Fraud and Risk Management

Dr Jeanette Van Akkeren