Accounting Foundation

About the Foundation

On August 2, 1982 the University of Sydney Senate approved the Constitution of the Accounting Foundation within the University of Sydney on the recommendation of an inaugural meeting held on 26 July, 1982.

Amendments to the Constitution were subsequently approved in May 1997 and June 1994. The Senate adopted new rules with effect from 1 May 2007, largely incorporating the original Constitution.

The objectives of the Foundation are to:

• Promote excellence in the fields of accounting and financial arrangement and in particular to: work in close co-operation with industry, commerce and the accounting profession, bringing together the co-ordinated skills of the various branches of the accounting and financial management disciplines;
• assist in bringing to the Foundation as "Visiting Fellows" stimulating persons of outstanding achievement in order that they may influence practice and research in accounting and financial management in Australia;
• arrange a series of lectures to be known as the "R.J. Chambers Memorial Research Lectures in Accounting;
• provide an organisation and a mechanism to assist accountants from the University to work in practice and vice versa, to enable a widening of experience and skills by both parties and to assist, where appropriate, accountants from Australia to study a particular problem abroad;
• provide scholarships to be known as the "R.J. Chambers Research Scholarships";
• foster interdisciplinary collaboration with cognate disciplines in the Faculty of Economics and Business;
• promote and foster relationships with alumni of the Faculty of Economics and Business;
• promote and foster relationships with external organisations and regulatory authorities which have an interest in accounting and financial management;
• contribute to public discussion and debate on matters of public policy in the field of accounting and financial management;
• publish works of present and past members of the Discipline of Accounting;
• sponsor research, publications and activities in the Discipline of Accounting.

Charter and Governance

The Foundation is governed by a Council comprising of leaders from the business community and senior University academics.

Council

The 2009 Council of the Accounting Foundation within the University of Sydney is as follows:

• Mr Neil Wykes, President
  Ernst &Young
• Mr Craig Jackson, Deputy President
  Ernst &Young
• Mr John Randall
  Metcash
• Mr Richard Rassi
  Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
• Mr Bryce Wauchope
  Company Director
• Mr Paul Wenham
  BDO
• Martin McGrath
  KPMG
• Paul Brunner
  PwC
• Paul Bull
  PKF
• Prof. Bob Walker, Academic Director
  The University of Sydney
• Prof. Tyrone Carlin
  The University of Sydney
• Prof. Graeme W. Dean
  The University of Sydney
• Prof. James Guthrie
  The University of Sydney
• Prof. Stewart Jones
  The University of Sydney
• Prof. John Roberts
  The University of Sydney
• Prof. Peter W. Wolnizer
  The University of Sydney
• Assoc. Prof. Philip Lee (Staff Observer)
  The University of Sydney
• Ms Sandra van der Laan (Staff Observer)
  The University of Sydney
• Dr Nonna Martinov-Bennie (Staff Observer)
  The University of Sydney

Related Links

• Chambers Memorial Research Lecture
• Pacioli Society