Postgraduate Research Studies

The Discipline of Accounting's research profile is diverse, reflecting its pioneering contribution to the decision-usefulness debate, extant research paradigms and emerging research areas. Thus, members of the Accounting Discipline are actively pursuing research into:

• The role of accounting information in decision making in private sector and public sector settings;
• The role of "fundamentals in explaining market value and takeovers
• Analysing corporate collapses and identifying the role of accounting;
• Directors' obligations and accountability;
• The economic impact of and corporate responses to accounting regulation;
• The role of accounting in corporate governance regimes;
• International accounting;
• Inflation accounting;
• Extended Reporting;- including environmental and social reporting and accounting for intellectual capital;
• Accounting history;
• Public sector accounting and accountability;
• Human judgment and decision making.

The Discipline has a vigorous postgraduate research program and offers the following research degrees:

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
• Master of Philosophy (MPhil)

The Discipline of Accounting Postgraduate Research Coordinator is Associate Professor Sue Newberry.