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Research

Research areas

Accounting professionalisation projects, the interplay of accounting and imperialism, the role of the accounting profession in grand corruption, accounting history, regulation, accounting education and ethics

Research group membership

  • Learning and Teaching Research Group, Faculty of Economic and Financial Studies – since 2007
  • Organisational Governance and Performance Research Network, Department of Accounting and Finance – since 2008 

Areas of research supervision

Management control design, the balanced scorecard, governance, strategy, human capital.  These areas are investigated across the three sectors of for profit, not-for-profit and public in developed and less-developed country settings.

Research supervision

Honours

  1. Feng Fei Wang, 2009, “Implementing change in a university setting: The cost of its carbon footprint” with Associate Professor Sue Wright
  2. Zhiping Li, 2009, “Performance management systems in China’s SME tourism industry” with Dr. Vicki Baard
  3. Qi Ying Pang, 2008, “Professional accountants’ views on conceptual issues relating to the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme 2010”, with Associate Professor Lorne Cummings
  4. Hua Yu, 2007, “Management and Staff Attitudes toward Balanced Scorecard Initiatives in the NSW Health Sector” with A/Prof. Lorne Cummings
  5. Chen Rong Rong, 2006, “Exploring the link between Board of Directors and Corporate Strategy” with A/Prof. Sue Wright
  6. Jessica Hua Chen, 2006, “Exploring the identity of not-for-profit organisations in Australia” with A/Prof. Lorne Cummings

Postgraduate

  1. Jessica Hua Chen, PhD, current, “Accountability in the Not-for-Profit Sector in Australia”, with A/Prof. Lorne Cummings
  2. Xiaohui Luo, PhD, current, “Management Control System Design within its Organizational Context: Extending the Research into Emerging Markets”
  3. Loretta O’Donnell (Macquarie Graduate School of Management), PhD, completed in 2008, “An examination of the current and potential role of human capital analysis in the dialogue between boards and markets, with reference to the Australian biotechnology industry”, with Professor Robin Kramar
  4. Nazila Razi, (Macquarie Graduate School of Management), Master of Financial Management, completed in 2008, “Performance Measurement in the Service Industry: the Case of Unwired Australia”

Research grants and projects

  1. 2009-2010 Macquarie University Learning and Teaching Priority Grant for a project titled, "Alignment and Development of Learning, Teaching and Assessment Resources for Ethics Education in Accounting Programs" - a collaborative project with A/Prof Sue Wright and Mr James Hazelton, Department of Accounting and Finance, Macquarie University.

  2. 2009-2010 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Research Grant for a project titled "The Impact of the ASX Corporate Governance Recommendations on Corporate Risk Management” - a collaborative project with A/Prof Elaine Evans and A/Prof. Sue Wright , Department of Accounting and Finance, Macquarie University

  3. Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA)  2007 Emerging Scholars' Fund for a project titled, “Accounting, empire, and discipline: the case of Filipino labour in early 20th century Hawaiian sugar plantations”

  4. 2006-2008 Macquarie University Research Development Grant for a project titled, “Exposing the complicit role of the accounting profession in grand corruption in the Philippines” – an interdisciplinary and collaborative project with Dr. D. Chaikin, Discipline of Business Law, University of Sydney, and A/Prof C. Poullaos, Discipline of Accounting, University of Sydney - completed

  5. 2006-2007 Macquarie University Strategic Curriculum Development Grant for a project titled, “An investigation of approaches to developing, integrating and maintaining ethics education in undergraduate accounting programs” – an interdisciplinary and collaborative project with A/Prof. R. Radich, Dr. S. Wright, Department of Accounting and Finance, Macquarie University, and A/Prof C. Mackenzie, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University – completed

  6. 2004-2005 Macquarie University New Staff Research Grant for a project titled, “An analysis of the cost accounting practices in a Philippine tobacco factory, 1781-1882” - completed

  7. 2004-2005 Macquarie University Department of Accounting and Finance Research Grant for a project titled, “Evaluating assessed group-work in a second-year management accounting subject” with A/Prof A. Reid and A/Prof H. Schoch (Department of Accounting and Finance, Macquarie University) – completed

  8. 2004 UNSW Faculty of Commerce and Economics Special Research Grant for a project titled, “Brewing accounting information: Financial reporting by NSW and Victorian breweries, 1882-1920” - with A/Prof. R. Morris, School of Accounting, UNSW