Research Areas
The Department has about 40 academic staff. Staff research is regularly accepted for publication in the world's leading accounting and business information system journals, as well as in high profile professional journals.
The Department has expertise in the following areas of study and is able to offer supervision of topics in any of these areas:
- Markets-based accounting research; contracting theory and research; earnings management; valuation; international financial reporting.
- Economics of auditing and auditor behaviour, the pricing of audits, audit quality, audit judgement, the audit market, corporate governance, business forensics.
- Accounting information systems, decision making in corporate recovery, intelligent decision aids, enterprise resource planning systems, assimilation of information systems, behaviour in information environments, information valuation and use, electronic commerce, escalation theory, organisation impacts, reliance measurement.
- Performance management, performance impact of corporate downsizing, strategic cost management, strategy implementation, management control system design, organisational behaviour, interorganisational networks.