Ted Watts is a senior lecturer in managerial accounting. He has held positions at the Australian Catholic University, the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of New South Wales, together with visiting positions in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Shanghai and the United States of America. Ted has held a variety of academic/management positions including; Head of Discipline, Associate Head of School, member of Academic Senate and the University Education Committee (UOW), Deputy Head of School, Chair of the Accounting and Finance Research Group, and Chair of the Honours and Postgraduate Committee (ACU). His teaching specializations are managerial accounting and management planning and control at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research areas include management control, cost management and performance measurement. He has won 13 external and internal competitive research grants. For this he has received the Faculty of Commerce Research Grant Excellence Award in 2008 and 2009.
Articles
A Doctor’s 20 year contribution to regional development in Katoomba, New South Wales, 1887-1907 (with Ciorstan Smark), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Regional and community innovations in Australia’s early social and local-government history are often a reflection...
From Inception to Inertia – An Institutional Perspective of a Public Accountability Measure (with C. J. McNair and V. Baard), Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2010)
This paper uses neo-institutional theory to examine the rise and fall of performance indicators adopted...
Assessing professionalism: the case of financial planning (with Brian Murphy), JASSA - The FINSIA Journal of Applied Finance (2009)
Based on a relatively small survey of 78 financial planners and their attitudes to professionalism,...
The integration of balanced scorecard models (with CJ McNair-Connolly), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
Trigger points: enhancing generic skills in accounting education through changes to teaching practices (with C. J. McNair), Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2008)
In 2001 a small Australian university implement particular intervention strategies designed to improve specific educational...
Contributions to Books
On Foxes Becoming Gamekeepers: The capture of professional regulation by the Australian accounting profession (with Graham Bowrey, B. Murphy, and Ciorstan J. Smark), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
There are such persons as liars, damned liars and experts, and there are accountants, bad...
Using capacity management to address issues of airport management (with Vicki Baard), in H. Kisilowska & J. Seruga (Eds.), Business and Informatics - Current Trends (2) (2006)
Airport management has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past 30 years. This development resulted...
Presentations
Financial Planning in Australia: Industry or Profession? (with Brian Murphy), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
Purpose - This paper tests whether financial planning in Australia remains an industry or can...
The introduction of program budgeting in the Sydney College of Advanced Education: a case study in budgetary change. (with Vicki Baard), Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference (2009)
Universities, over the past two decades, have introduced a range of sophisticated management accounting techniques...
Untying the Gordian Knot: Small Business and the Strategy Balance Scorecard (with C J. McNair and Vicki Baard), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
Research confirms that small business (SB) is important for the dynamics and stability of the...
Contributions to Local Government Accountability in Colonial New South Wales 1893-1894 (with Ciorstan J. Smark), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
Accountability innovations often reflect the contemporary social, political and economic relationships, and they are not...
Improving outcomes by improving student satisfaction: a case study of a small accounting program (with Trish Strong), 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Business 2005 Conference Proceedings (2005)
This paper documents the intervention strategies implemented by members of the Accounting Discipline within the...
Other
Poem: The Passion of Research, Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2012)
Poem: The Passion of Research