Ted Watts

BA, BEd, MEdAdmin, (UNE) MCom (UNSW), PhD (UTS), DipFinMgt (UNE), GCHE (UTS) FCPA, FCIS, CA, CMA

Telephone: (02) 4221 4005
Location: 40.309
Email: ted_watts@uow.edu.au

Areas of Expertise: Managerial Accounting

Research Profile: UOW RIS Profile

Ted Watts is a senior lecturer in managerial accounting. He has held positions at the Australian Catholic University, the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of New South Wales, together with visiting positions in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Shanghai and the United States of America.

Ted has held a variety of academic/management positions including; Head of Discipline, Associate Head of School, member of Academic Senate and the University Education Committee (UOW), Deputy Head of School, Chair of the Accounting and Finance Research Group, and Chair of the Honours and Postgraduate Committee (ACU).

His teaching specializations are managerial accounting and management planning and control at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research areas include management control, cost management and performance measurement. He has won 13 external and internal competitive research grants. For this he has received the Faculty of Commerce Research Grant Excellence Award in 2008 and 2009.

Ted has published 30 articles in ranked and professional journals, and 24 chapters in books. He has presented his research findings at over 123 national and international gatherings including the American Association of Accountants, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Asian Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting and International Management Control Systems Research Conferences and has won awards for best management accounting paper.

Ted is a joint founding editor of the ERA ranked Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal and serves on several other editorial boards. He was a foundation member of CPA Australia’s Centre of Excellence for Management Accounting (now Strategic Business Management).

The improvement of understanding is for two ends:  first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others – John Locke.

To the optimist, the glass is half full; to the pessimist, the glass is half empty; to the management accountant, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be – Anon.