Ciorstan Smark

BCom(Hons First Class, University Medal), PhD, FCA, FFin CMA, GradDipAppFin

Telephone: (02) 4221 5220
Location: 40.319
Email: ciorstan_smark@uow.edu.au

Memberships: Fellow Institute of Chartered Accountants, Fellow Financial Services Institute of Australia, Member of Institute of Certified Management Accountant, Founded and Managing Editor of Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal ( AABFJ). 

Areas of Expertise: Business Ethics, Financial Institutions and Management Accounting

Research Profile: UOW RIS Profile

Top Publication:

Smark, C. J. (2006). Costing Schizophrenia. Accounting Forum, 30 (4), 341-358.

La Rocca, M., La Rocca, T., Gerace, D. & Smark, C. J. (2009). Effect of diversification on capital structure. Accounting & Finance, 49 (4), 799-826. 

Smark, C. J. (2008). Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Why Deinstitutionalization from Mental Hospitals has Cost us Dear. (1 ed.). Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.

G. D. Bowrey & C. J. Smark (2008). Submission to Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. 

Ciorstan Smark is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance with over twenty years experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.  Her publications cover a wide range of accounting, finance and business ethics issues.

Ciorstan currently has three major areas of research interest:
- The role of accounting in de-institutionalisation from mental hospitals;
- The social and ethical impact of accounting analysis;
- and the history and development of accounting systems.