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
- 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.
- 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
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 governance failures inherent in private equity targets
- Fraud - legal sanctions and regulatory priorities
- Fraud, financial misconduct and the quality of corporate governance
- 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
- 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
- Disclosure in relation to elimination of Fraud/bribery/corruption: Evidence from Corporations (or from non-profit organizations)
- Motivation for Corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure by corporations (or by social enterprises or by not for profit organizations)
- The use of country-by-country reporting to combat tax avoidance
- 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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