Qualifications: Ph D. University of Queensland, Commerce Dept.- Organisational Culture and Personal Factors Affecting Auditors’ Ethical Decision-Making B. Com and Admin (Hons.) Griffith University- 2 Majors: Accounting & Finance; Management & Organisational Behaviour
Articles
An investigation of voluntary corporate greenhouse gas emissions reporting in a market governance system: Australian evidence, Accounting, auditing & accountability journal (2011)
Purpose – Institutional governance theory is used to explain voluntary corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting...
Can the financialised atmosphere be effectively regulated and accounted for? (with Patty McNicholas), Accounting, auditing & accountability journal (2011)
Purpose – This paper aims to carry out a critical analysis of the proposed Australian...
The rise of regulatory capitalism and the decline of auditor independence: A critical and experimental examination of auditors’ conflicts of interest (with Bent Warming-Rasmussen), Critical perspectives on accounting (2009)
This study investigates the decline of auditor independence coinciding with the rise of regulatory capitalism....
Implications of the IFRS goodwill accounting treatment (with G Wines and R Dagwell), Managerial auditing journal (2007)
Purpose – This paper aims to critically examine the change in accounting treatment for goodwill...
Bad apples in bad barrels revisited: Cognitive moral development, just world beliefs, rewards, and ethical decision making (with Neal M. Ashkanasy and Linda K. Trevino), Business ethics quarterly (2006)
In this study, we test the interactive effect on ethical decision-making of (1) personal characteristics,...
Conference Papers
The BP gulf oil spill: Failed regulatory and corporate governance systems analysed through a regulatory capitalist lens (with Patty McNicholas), 2011 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) conference (2011)
This paper critically examines the systemic flaws in the US oil and gas regulation, and...
Voluntary employee disclosures in Australian annual reports applying Ullmann’s stakeholder theory (with Pamela Kent and Tamara Zunker), 2011 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) conference (2011)
Extract:
Many companies state in their reports that their employees are the company’s most valuable resource...
BP greenwash spoiled by Gulf oil spill: A critical analysis of US compromised regulation and BP's governance that predisposed the oil spill (with Patty McNicholas), EAA 2011: 34th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (2011)
This paper critically examines the systemic flaws in regulation and corporate accountability that predisposed the...
Can the financialized atmosphere be effectively regulated? A critical analysis of the proposed Australian carbon pollution reduction scheme as a complex market solution to global warming (with Patty McNicholas), The 8th Australasian conference on social and environment accounting research (CSEAR 2009) (2009)
Purpose – This study examines the complex financial and reporting regulation that will oversee and...
Towards emissions trading: The role of environmental management systems in voluntarily disclosing greenhouse gas emissions (with Dina Wahyuni and Michaela Rankin), 2009 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) conference (2009)
The Australian government ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2007 signifying their commitment to address global...