Research
The Discipline of Accounting within the Faculty of Economics and Business is home to a vibrant community of internationally recognised scholars.
The Discipline undertakes research on fundamental issues of accounting affecting the business communityand regulatory authorities. In particular our research focus embraces:
- the role of accounting information in decision making generally and capital markets in particular;
- the modelling of corporate failure and credit risk;
- corporate takeovers and reconstructions;
- corporate governance;
- accounting standard setting, particularly the role international financial reporting standards in Australia;
- market price accounting;
- environmental and social reporting;
- accounting history and critical accounting research;
- public sector accountability and financial reporting.
The critical mass and relevance of our research agenda is reflected in our involvement in several major ARC Discovery and Linkage projects, and in our substantial research consultancies with industry and government, as well as our active engagement with professional practice. The Discipline is also home to three very well known and highly rated international accounting journals: Abacus; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; and the Australian Accounting Review. (Abacus is one of the oldest accounting journals in the world, having been established in 1965). All three journals make a distinctive contribution to accounting theory and practice in the international arena.
Staff in the Discipline continue to be very successful in securing large research grants from the highly prestigious competitive funding source, the Australian Research Council. The Accounting discipline at Sydney is the only grouping within the discipline in Australia to be consistently awarded Large ARC Grants in each of the past five years. In addition, many staff have authored scholarly books which have been published by major international publishing houses, as well as several leading textbooks in accounting.