Research
Accounting and Finance
Staff teaching in Accounting and Finance within the Deakin Business School conduct archival, survey and case study research in a variety of business-related areas. Research areas include:
- the market for audit services
- the transition to International Financial Reporting Standards
- auditing in the public sector
- the impact of recent regulatory reforms to corporate disclosure and auditor independence
- public sector auditing
- corporate governance
- earnings management
- corporate collapse
- insolvency prediction models
Key Projects
Prof. Jubb holds an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant (with Prof. K. Houghton of ANU) to research the issue of whether effective audit committees, where they exist amongst listed companies, constrain earnings management. Work also is being undertaken by Prof. Jubb on disclosures and impact of transitioning to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in conjunction with the Australian Stock Exchange. Interlocking directorates and their association with common auditors, and the potential impacts of those associations is another project being undertaken by Prof. Jubb.
Dr Judy Nagy researches in the area of public sector and internal auditing and Gus Hossari is working on models of corporate collapse.
