Indra is an associate professor in accounting at University of Wollongong, having previously held an academic post at The University of Sydney. Prior to joining academia, Indra has worked in 20 industrial organisations spanning the private and public sectors, both overseas and in Australia, as an employee in the early stages and as a consultant in accounting and business in the latter stages of his career. They include Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers), Toyota Finance Australia, Hawker de Havilland (now Boeing), Ansett Worldwide, GEC Alsthom, Unilever Australia, and U.S.A.I.D. Over the past five years, Indra has published over 95 articles across a range of academic disciplines, on emotional capital, intellectual capital, international accounting, and knowledge management. His articles have appeared in refereed academic journals, conference papers, conference proceedings, professional journals and several business magazines. The refereed accounting and business journals include Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Accounting History, Australian Accounting Review, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Human Resource Costing and Accounting, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies, and The British Accounting Review. His articles also have appeared in CA Charter, CIMA Insider, Financial Management, and several business magazines around the globe. Indra is on the editorial board of Journal of Asia Business Studies, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting, and Journal of Knowledge Management Practice.
Articles
Learning financial accounting in a tertiary institution of a developing country. An investigation into instructional methods., Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (2012)
This study examines three instructional methods (traditional, interactive, and group case–based study), and student opinions...
Civil war, stock return, and intellectual capital disclosure in Sri Lanka, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
This study examines the effect of current-period intellectual capital disclosure on earnings and current annual...
Earnings management and the effect of earnings quality in relation to stress level and bankruptcy level of Chinese listed firms (with Feng Li and Shiguang Ma), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
This paper investigates the link between earnings management and earnings quality for the Chinese firms...
The relation of intellectual capital disclosure strategies and market value in two political settings, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the political setting (civil...
An empirical analysis of the relationship between board size and committees, and narrative human capital disclosure, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2010)
This study empirically investigates whether board size, non-executive directors on the remuneration committee, and non-executive...
Books
Reputation Building, Website Disclosure & the Case of Intellectual Capital, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
This study investigated the following aspects of the 100 most entrepreneurial firms, widely known as...
Intellectual capital accounting: Practices in a developing country, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)
This book examines and explains the intellectual capital reporting practices, with a human capital focus,...