Having entered academia after a long career in Accounting, Auditing, Tax and Administration both Australia and the UK, my research program is still evolving.

Arising from a research project forming part of my Bachelor of Commerce Honours (awarded in April 2003), my thesis in the area of accounting education explored the operationalisation of the Learning Organisation a modern management accounting perspective to tutorial teaching in a third year elective undergraduate management accounting unit in the Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) Program. This project was in response to a call evidenced in the literature made to accounting educators to use more innovative teaching methods in order to provide accounting graduates with appropriate work place skills. I am continuing to pursue the area of accounting education research and arising from my thesis I have made the following presentations:

19 September 2003

Macquarie University – Faculty of Economic and Financial Studies Teaching Workshops:

Presentation on my research

24 October 2003

Macquarie University – Department of Accounting and Finance Second Semester 2003 Series:

“The Learning Organisation Concept and its Adaptation to Teaching in an Undergraduate Accounting Unit”

Based upon feedback from these presentations I have submitted a paper for publication in a refereed journal The Asian Accounting Review.

I intend to develop this research further with the possibility of using another third year elective unit. At present I am also involved in preliminary work for a number of possible research projects in the not-for-profit sector which include accounting standard harmonisation and the use of non financial key performance indicators.

Conferences

During 2001 and 2003 I attended the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS). In both cases there were a substantial number of delegates and presenters not only representing Australian universities, but also many overseas institutions. The ACIS is the foremost conference in this region in the area of information systems. The benefits of both networking with leading academics in the field and keeping abreast of the latest developments in the field are invaluable.

In 2003 I also attended the Eighth Biennial Management Accounting Research Conference which focuses on the area of Management Accounting. Again this was valuable in keeping me informed in the area which I sometimes teach in.

I am an actively participated in Department Research Seminars since 1998.