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Finding insights and solutions to global challenges

Our accounting research explores and finds answers to real-world issues, delivering innovative insights across a variety of topics, methodologies and ideologies.

Our areas of research expertise include:

  • accounting education
  • auditing and assurance services
  • business and company law
  • capital markets
  • corporate accounting and reporting
  • corporate governance
  • environmental and social accounting
  • ethical investment and energy law
  • ethics
  • forensic accounting and financial crime
  • financial and management accounting
  • accounting information systems
  • international financial reporting
  • management controls and performance management
  • risk management
  • sustainability reporting
  • taxation
  • water accounting.

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Our research networks

Additional opportunities for innovation and learning include our specialist research networks:

The ASK research network enables our academics to direct complex, interdisciplinary projects that produce fresh insights in areas including:

  • sustainable knowledge generation and dissemination
  • social and environmental issues
  • sustainability
  • intellectual capital
  • non-financial information
  • non-market information
  • industry applications
  • professional services
  • sustainable knowledge education.

To learn more, contact Associate Professor Johannes Dumay on john.dumay@mq.edu.au and Associate Professor James Hazelton on james.hazelton@mq.edu.au.

The Performance Management and Control research network focus on the management of organisational activities to strengthen economic productivity, enhance employee well-being and improving sustainability.

Our research addresses the nature of management control systems, performance management systems, and management accounting practises.

To learn more, contact Professor Kevin Baird on kevin.baird@mq.edu.au and Professor Rahat Munir on rahat.munir@mq.edu.au.

This network provides theoretical, methodological and empirical evidence within accountancy and management decision making in countries including:

  • Australia
  • China
  • India
  • Malaysia
  • Germany
  • Indonesia
  • Fiji
  • Japan.

To learn more, contact Professor Chris Patel on chris.patel@mq.edu.au and Associate Professor Parmod Chand on parmod.chand@mq.edu.au.

The IGAP research network offers research expertise in corporate and not-for-profit organisational accountability and transparency in Australia and internationally.

Our research focuses on building trust and confidence in financial reporting and assurance and understanding WHS performance to improve its evaluation and reporting indicators.

To learn more, contact Dr Dale Tweedie at dale.tweedie@mq.edu.au.