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Accounting department research at the AUT Business School
AUT University's Accounting Department in Auckland, New Zealand ranks highly in international and national benchmarks for academic reputation, quality of research and employer engagement.
Our rankings include:
- AFFANZ (Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and NZ). AUT's Accounting and Finance programmes are ranked top 15 in NZ and Australia. Based on only A* ranked Journals, (considered the most influential journals in the field), AUT University ranked 10th place. Read more about the AAFANZ study of 53 accounting and finance departments here.
- PBRF: AUT's Accounting and Finance Departments are ranked 1st in Auckland and 2nd nationally in the 2006 Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) round.
About the Accounting Department
Spearheaded by Professors Hooper and Northcott, accounting at the AUT Business School comprises Financial and Management Accounting (Taxation is included as a discipline under Law at postgraduate level).
Our qualifications are accredited by the following professional accounting bodies:
The Accounting team comprises 15 doctoral-qualified staff (with 2 more almost at completion), 16 PhD researchers and over 70 masters students. Our research active academics and their distinctive areas of interest are listed below.
Achievements include the granting of external funds for research projects, authorship of books, professional articles and publications in top international journals. A significant research project currently underway involves Pacific Island businesses, for which the department is fortunate in having the support of the Pacific Business Trust; Health Sector; Accounting Education; Audit; Environment Reporting; and Intellectual Capital Reporting.
We are proud to be affiliated are with the following Professional Accounting Bodies
Head of Department
Professors
Associate professors
Senior lecturers
Christina Chiang
Haiyan Jiang
Helen Tregidga
Humayun Kabir
Irshad Ali
James Prescott
John Kommunuri
Mahmood Ahmed Momin
Paul Wells
Rowena Sinclair
Sue Yong
Zahir Ahmed
Lecturers
PhD Students
Currently, we are supervising doctoral students researching the following topics:
- Community-Led Initiatives and Health Sector Efficiency and Accountability in a Developing Country.
- Capital Taxation: Lessons Drawn from Foreign Jurisdictions.
- Improving audit performance: An investigation into the reporting of environmental matters in New Zealand
- Re-engineering the Corporate Finance Function within a Large Commercial Organisation.
- New Zealand as an investment destination: Motivations and rewards for Chinese investors.
- The Usefulness of New Zealand International Reporting Standards
- Problems of Financial Management in Small Businesses
- A Comparative Study of the Impact of Ethical Interventions on Accounting Students
- A Longitudinal Study of Financial Reporting in Auckland Tertiary Institutes
- Financial Management of Pacifica SMEs
- Intellectual Capital Reporting in New Zealand
- Stakeholder engagement in Corporate Social Reporting
- Stereotypes and accountants in New Zealand
- Taxation and small business enterprises.