Kathie Cooper

BCom(Hons), PhD

Telephone: (02) 4221 3392
Location: 40.324
Email: kathie_cooper@uow.edu.au

Areas of Expertise: Financial Accounting (accounting regulation & conceptual framework project)

Research Profile: UOW RIS Profile

Kathie joined the department as a lecturer in June 1988 and has teaching responsibilities at undergraduate level in financial accounting and accounting theory. She also lectures accounting history and regulation at postgraduate level and is heavily involved in the supervision of postgraduate research students.

Her research interests include accounting and accountability in the public sector, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of accounting, history and regulation, including autopoiesis, sociology of professions and power frameworks.

Kathie has written, co-written and presented a number of papers at Australian and overseas conferences dealing with the history and regulation of the accountancy profession.

She was Deputy Director of the International Business Research Institute and co-authoured with Warwick Funnell the recently published text on public sector financial management, Public Sector Accounting and Accountability in Australia.