AUT - Keith Hooper

Professor Keith Hooper

Professor of Financial Accounting

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 – ext: 5758

Email: keith.hooper@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• Doctor of Philosophy (Accounting) University of Waikato
• Master of Arts Massey University
• Master of Business Studies (First Class Honours) Massey University
• Certificate of Education (Cert Ed), London University
• Chartered Accountant, NZICA
• Fellow of CPA (Australia)
  

Biography:

Keith is the Professor of Financial Accounting and Disciplinary Chair in the Department of Accounting. A past editor of academic journals (Pacific Accounting Review, and Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management), Keith has taught at Waikato, Manchester and Massey Universities, as well as at Groupe ESSCA in France. He holds masters degrees in history and in accounting and a PhD in accounting. His teaching aim is to develop postgraduate courses and thesis research in accounting. He currently supervises 10 PhD students.
 
Keith has produced more than 100 publications including, professional articles, refereed journals (such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Accounting History, etc), books and conference papers. He is editor in chief of Conceptual Issues on Accounting, a textbook published by Thompson Education in 2008. His research interests are wide and varied, preferring a critical approach and case-based research. Keith is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of The Accounting History Journal, and Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management which he founded in 2003. He is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and CPA Australia.

Teaching Areas:

Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching

• Advanced Financial Reporting
• International Financial Reporting
• Accounting Theory

Interest in Research Supervision

• Postgraduate research papers and theses
• PhD theses in Accounting and Related Topics
• Several PhD students successfully supervised to completion
• Faculty of Business Research Supervisor Award 2007

Research areas:

• Financial Reporting
• Accounting History
• Asset Valuation Concepts

Current Research Projects:

• International Financial Reporting
• Concepts of Assets Valuation
• Accounting History
• Not-for-Profit Reporting

Publications:

1. Huang, H., & Hooper, K.C. (2011). New Zealand Funding Organisations: How do they make decisions on allocating funds to Not-for-profit organisations? Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Vol. 8(4).
2. Prescott. S.M. & Hooper, K.C. (2009). Commons and anti-commons: Tongan business experiences in New Zealand. Pacific Accounting Review, 21 (3), pp. 286-303.
3. Hooper, K.C. & Kearins, K.N. (2008). The walrus and the carpenter: Liberal reform, hypocrisy and expertocracy in Maori land loss in New Zealand 1885-1911, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19 (8), 1239-1262.
4. Hooper, K.C., Sinclair, R, Hui, D & Mataira, K.M. (2008). Financial Reporting by New Zealand charities: finding a way forward, Managerial Auditing, 23 (1), 68-83.
5. Low, M., Davey, H. and Hooper, K. (2008). Accounting Scandals, Ethical Dilemmas and Educational Challenges. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19 (2), 222-254.
6. Hooper, K.C & Kearins, K.N. (2007) Recurrent rescues of a financial institution: Socialising the losses. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 18 (4), 469-486.
7. Hooper, K.C., Davey, H., & Su R.  (2006) Persistence in Mutual Fund Returns: New Zealand Evidence.  Accounting Research Journal, 19 (2), 105-121.
8. Hooper, K.C. (2006).  Using William the Conqueror’s accounting record to assess manorial efficiency: a critical appraisal, Accounting History, 11 (2), 67- 89.
9. Hooper, K.C & Kearins, K.N. (2005). Knowing “The price of everything and the value of nothing’: Accounting for heritage assets, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 18 (3), 410-433.
10. Kearins, K.N. & Hooper, K.C. (2002). Genealogical Method and Analysis. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 15(5), pp.733-757