AUT - John Kommunuri

John Kommunuri

Lecturer, Centre for Business Interdisciplinary Studies

Phone: + 64 9 921 9999 ext 5013

Email: jkommunuri@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• Master of Professional Business Studies (Distinction)
• Master of Education
• Master of Arts
  
• Master of Commerce (Accounting & Taxation)
• Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting)

Memberships and Affiliations:

• Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) Australia –Full member
• Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)
• American Accounting Association 
• New Zealand Teachers Council
  

Teaching Areas:

• Financial Accounting
• Academic supervision (Cooperative Education)

Research areas:

•    Audit quality and Financial reporting
•    Risk relevance of accounting information
•    Financial reporting quality in emerging economies
•    Value relevance of IFRS adoption
•    E-learning in business programmes

Research Summary:

John’s research interests are in the area of assessing the quality of financial reporting and how this quality is synchronized into firm’s stock price.  His current research study is on the impact of auditor industry specialization on stock price synchronicity. Other areas: the relationship between firm’s corporate governance quality and it’s idiosyncratic stock returns, value relevance of IFRS adoption.

Current Research Projects:

Ali, I., Kommunuri, J., & Julich, S. (2012).Using blogs as an assessment tool in higher education: Evidence from a first year business programme.

Publications:

Conference proceedings:

Kommunuri, J. 2012. “Value relevance of accounting information subsequent to the adoption of IFRS in New Zealand” Global Accounting, Finance, and Economics Conference, Melbourne, Australia

Kommunuri, J. 2011. ‘Financial Reporting Quality and firm specific return volatility’ World Business and Economics Research conference, Auckland

Kommunuri, J. 2011. ‘Corporate ethical commitment and financial payback: New Zealand evidence’ Australasian Business Ethics Network Conference, Auckland

Kommunuri, J. 2011. 'Does idiosyncratic stock return reflect corporate governance quality? Evidence from selected New Zealand companies', Auckland Regional Accounting Conference, Auckland

Awards:

• 2009 - Excellence in Student Centred Learning Award