School of Accounting & Finance

The School of Accounting & Finance is one of three Schools of the Faculty of Commerce. The School offers courses in both Accounting & Finance in the degrees offered by the Faculty at all levels - bachelors and masters degrees and doctorates. The School of Accounting and Finance has developed research strengths in a number of areas. Our Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program is the largest of all accounting departments in Australia. The School is regarded as one of the top institutions for alternative research frameworks and application of information technology to learning and teaching. Alternative research frameworks examine accounting in its broader political, economic and social framework. Such research goes beyond the traditional technical focus of accounting and finance.

Up Coming Events

2nd National Forensic Accounting Teaching and Research Symposium
Theme: (Re) defining the Forensic Accountant: merging practice, research and education
Date: 12th to 14th February 2012
Venue: 67.101 - 67.104

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Public Panel Discussion
Theme: Effective and Efficient Forensic Accounting Evidence
Date: 12th February 2012
Time: 1 pm
Venue: Builing 67 Level 1

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Spring 2011 Seminar Series

PhD Student Receives A-CSEAR's Emerging Scholar’s Colloquium Award
PhD Student , Jeurgen Suefer received the award for his presentation at the t the Emerging Scholar’s Colloquium preceding the annual Australasian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (A-CSEAR) hosted by the University of Tasmania in December 2011. His thesis combines costing and accounting for carbon within an organisational change framework. The award was sponsored by the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, a high quality publication in accounting.