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The decision to outsource risk management activities (with Jacqueline Christensen), 9th Annual ANCAAR Audit Research Forum (2011)
This study uses transaction cost economics (TCE) to identify factors influencing Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)...
Corporate governance and the quality of green house gas emission disclosures (with Janice Hollindale and James Routledge), 23rd Asian-Pacific conference on international accounting issues (2011)
The introduction of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (Cth) legislation is evidence...
The decision to internally generate or outsource risk management activities (with Jacqueline Christensen), 23rd Asian-Pacific conference on international accounting issues (2011)
This study uses transaction cost economics (TCE) to identify factors influencing Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)...
Voluntary employee disclosures in Australian annual reports applying Ullmann’s stakeholder theory (with Carolyn Windsor and Tamara Zunker), 2011 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) conference (2011)
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Many companies state in their reports that their employees are the company’s most valuable resource...
Are corporate governance recommendations relevant for small companies? (with Jacqueline Christensen, James Routledge, and Jenny Stewart), 1st Annual Journal of International Accounting Research (IJAR) conference (2011)
This study examines the extent to which small listed companies in Australia comply with the...
The decision to outsource management advisory services, Managerial auditing journal (2011)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper, using transaction cost economics as a theoretical framework,...
Auditor tactics in negotiations: A research note (with Janice Hollindale and Ray McNamara), International journal of auditing (2011)
This study provides a broad set of tactics identified and used by mediation experts widely...
Corporate governance and company performance in Australia (with Jacqueline Christensen and Jenny Steward), Twenty-first Asian-Pacific conference on international accounting issues (2009)
This study tests whether the adoption of Australian best practice corporate governance recommendations have a...
Choice of non-audit services' supplier: Other consultants versus the external auditor (with Jacqueline Christensen and Jenny Stewart), 2009 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) conference (2009)
Extract: The research problem for this study is to identify factors that influence a company’s...
Application of stakeholder theory to corporate environmental disclosures (with Christopher Chan), Corporate ownership & control (2009)
Ullmann's (1985) three-dimensional model of social responsibility disclosure is tested to determine whether it can...
Innate and discretionary accruals quality and corporate governance (with James Routledge and Jenny Stewart), Accounting and finance (2009)
This paper extends previous research on the association between corporate governance mechanisms and accruals quality....
Corporate governance and disclosures on the transition to international financial reporting standards (with Jenny Stewart), Business papers (2008)
For reporting periods ending on or after 30 June 2004, Australian companies were required to...
What drives TBL reporting: Good governance or threat to legitimacy? (with Reza Monem), Business papers (2008)
This paper provides two complementary explanations for the adoption of triple bottom line (TBL) reporting...
Auditor orientation, strategies, and tactics in audit negotiations (with Janice Hollindale and Ray McNamara), Business papers (2008)
This paper establishes the tactics that auditors use in negotiations with their client-management. It analyses...
Innate and discretionary accrual quality and corporate governance (with James Routledge and Jenny Stewart), Business papers (2008)
The empirical analysis presented in this paper provides further insight into the important issue of...
Droughts and big baths of Australian agricultural firms (with Reza Monem and Glenn Cuffe), Business papers (2008)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Australian agricultural firms display...
The relation between external audit fees, audit committee characteristics and internal audit (with Jenny Goodwin-Stewart), Business papers (2006)
This study examines the association between audit fees, an effective audit committee and internal audit...
Psychological Characteristics Contributing to Expertise in Audit Judgement (with Lois Munro and Tony Gambling), Business papers (2006)
Prior research has sought a better understanding of the relation between audit expertise and judgment...
Incidence and Incentives for the Voluntary Disclosure of Employee Entitlement Information Encouraged under AASB 1028 (with Mark Molesworth), Corporate Ownership and Control (2006)
This paper examines the determinants of voluntary disclosure by firms of employee entitlement actuarial assumptions...
Governance Structures, Ethnicity, and Audit Fees of Malaysian Listed Firms (with Puan Yatim and Peter Clarkson), Business papers (2006)
This study examines the association between external audit fees, and board and audit committee characteristics...
The use of internal audit by Australian companies (with Jenny Goodwin-Stewart), Business papers (2006)
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the voluntary use of internal...
Internal governance structures and earnings management (with Ryan Davidson and Jenny Goodwin-Stewart), Accounting and Finance (2005)
This paper investigates the role of a firm’s internal governance structure in constraining earnings management....