Ciorstan Smark is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance with over twenty years experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her publications cover a wide range of accounting, finance and business ethics issues. Ciorstan currently has three major areas of research interest: - The role of accounting in de-institutionalisation from mental hospitals; - The social and ethical impact of accounting analysis; - and the history and development of accounting systems.
Articles
Editorial Volume 4, Issue 4, Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2012)
This issue of AABFJ presents articles from a diverse range of approaches and subject areas....
Editorial Volume 5, Issue 1, Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2012)
This issue of AABFJ is the first in our fifth year of publication and in...
Editorial Volume 5, Issue 3, Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2012)
This issue of AABFJ contains a diverse range of articles from accounting, finance, financial planning...
A Doctor’s 20 year contribution to regional development in Katoomba, New South Wales, 1887-1907 (with Ted Watts), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Regional and community innovations in Australia’s early social and local-government history are often a reflection...
Editorial Volume 4, Issue 3, Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2010)
This issue of AABFJ presents papers from a range of approaches and research topics in...
Contributions to Books
On Foxes Becoming Gamekeepers: The capture of professional regulation by the Australian accounting profession (with Graham Bowrey, B. Murphy, and T. Watts), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
There are such persons as liars, damned liars and experts, and there are accountants, bad...
Accounting and Asylums: A case study reflecting on the role of accounting related thinking in deinstitutionalisation policy in New South Wales, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
ABSTRACT This case study reflects on the way in which accounting-related thinking informed the process...
Business Ethics at Macarthur (with C. Puttee), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
Business Ethics has been taught at the “Macarthur” (now “Campbelltown” Campus) of University of Western...
Presentations
New Public Management: Is it really new? (with Graham Bowrey), Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Accounting Conference (pp. 1-14). (2009)
The public sectors in a number of countries, including the UK, Canada, New Zealand and...
Contributions to Local Government Accountability in Colonial New South Wales 1893-1894 (with T. Watts), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
Accountability innovations often reflect the contemporary social, political and economic relationships, and they are not...
Schizophrenia – The Costs, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
By looking at a particular subset of mental illness in Australia, (schizophrenia), this article reflects...
N-Gens of Change - Personal Response Systems and Net-Generation Students (with Brian Murphy), in C. D.. Ho (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference for the Australian Business and Behavioural Sciences Association: Industry, Markets and Regions (2006)
Personal Response Systems are a technology similar to use to a television remote control or...
Social and Historical Power Plays: A Foucauldian Gaze on Mental Institutions (with H. Deo), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
ABSTRACT: This research focuses on New South Wales’ process of deinstitutionalisation using a Foucauldian lens....
Other
Editorial Volume 5 Issue 4, Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2012)
Welcome to the final issue of AABFJ for 2011. The journal has grown in the...
Editorial Volume 6 Issue 1, Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2012)
Welcome to the first issue of AABFJ for 2012. This issue is weighted towards finance...