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 and groups
- Accounting, accountability and performance
- Corporate governance and behavioural governance
- Financial and non-financial disclosure and capital markets
- Forensics, fraud and risk management
- Regulation and taxation
- Superannuation and wealth management
- Accounting education
- Not-for-profit Accounting and Accountability Group
- Behavioural Governance Group
Projects
This is just a sample of our research activity in this area.
- The value of accounting for value
- Measuring the social impact of social procurement
- 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
- 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
- Director Identity, Identification and Information Flows as Predictors of Board Monitoring, Resource Provision and Organisational Performance
- Accountability relationships between the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors
- Reporting Contributed Services: practices and motivations of mission-oriented organisations
- Accountants' contribution to achieving operational sustainability for Australian not-for-profit organisations
People
Program leaders
- Regulation
- Professor Kerrie Sadiq
- Accounting, Accountability and Performance
- Professor Helen Irvine
- Corporate Governance and Behavioural Governance
- Professor Marion Hutchinson
- 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
Student topics
Potential topics for new research students, and topics our students are currently studying.
- The legitimacy of social enterprise
- Corporate integrated reporting
- Accounting for social enterprise
- Interim financial reporting in the Asia-Pacific region
- The governance failures inherent in private equity targets
- Corporate social and environmental audit
- Floods and insurance in Queensland
- Fraud - legal sanctions and regulatory priorities
- On determining the path to cloud accounting
- Is there a case for mandating board diversity quotas in Australia?
- Do interlocking directorates affect firms' performances - study on Bangladesh?
- Strategic importance of Performance Measurement Systems in the Non-Profit Sector
- Related party transaction: a cross firm analysis in the Asia Pacific region
- Design and criteria of strategic performance management systems in non-profit organisations
- Design and criteria of strategic performance management systems in not-for-profit organisations
- Financial literacy and superannuation investment decision-making in a choice environment: an exploratory study.
- An investigation of the interplay between directors on board sub-committees and board decision making
- Perceptions of workplace learning in the accountancy schools of Australian universities: a partnership model
- Moral disengagement in the board appointment process
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and corporate social and environmental performance
- Developing a framework for assessing, developing and communicating the financial sustainability of Australian international aid organisations
- Sustaining the operational capability of not for profit organisations: towards an accountability framework for the reporting of multiple capitals
- Risk-based management accounting in an Australian context
- Motivation for Corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure by corporations (or by social enterprises or by not for profit organizations)
- Accounting for research in an Australian public sector university: a case study on the impact of Excellence in Research for Australia
- Fraud, financial misconduct and the quality of corporate governance
- Corporate social and environmental performance disclosure practices: Chinese evidence
- Performance disclosure in relation to elimination of fraud, bribery or corruption: Evidence from corporations
- Financial experts on the board of directors: A good or a bad thing?
- Corporate social and environmental performance disclosure practices within the South-East Asian region
- Concurrent independent forensic witness processes in Australia: The impact on quality, independence and effectiveness of forensic independent witnesses
- Combating tax avoidance via country by country reporting
- Using global formulary apportionment as a firm-specific approach to international profit allocation
- A longitudinal study of ASX 100 companies with subsidiaries in financial secrecy jurisdictions
Research degree enquiries
QUT Business School - Research Support Office
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- Email: bus.research@qut.edu.au
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