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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


PhD Students
Currently, we are supervising doctoral students researching the following topics: