Accountancy & Finance Expertise
Otago’s research excellence is reflected in the research activities of the large and diverse staff within our Department.
Use the staff research information below or our searchable databases to learn more about the fields of expertise in the Department and across the University of Otago.
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Staff research interests
Professor Ralph Adler
- Performance management
- Strategic management accounting
- Organisational effectiveness
- Active student learning
Dr Gurmeet Bhabra
- Corporate control
- corporate governance
- dividend policy
- corporate restructuring
Associate Professor John Burke
- Capital markets
- Real options
- History and philosophy of science
Professor Timothy Falcon Crack
- Empirical capital markets
- Derivatives
- Econometrics
- Quantitative active equity trading strategies
- Fixed income theory
- Market microstructure
Dr Michael Falta
- Financial (accounting) measurement theory
- capital market research
- firm default analysis
- uncertainty and risk management
- applications of computational statistics and various optimisation techniques to cost and management accounting, auditing, econometrics, portfolio theory, asset reliability, life-cycle costing
Sriyalatha Kumarasinghe
- Japanese management and management accounting
- Organizational behaviour and performance management
- Entry mode strategies and performance of multinational enterprises
- Business ethics, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility
Dr Hai Lin
- Fixed income securities
- Market microstructure
- Derivatives
- Asset pricing
- Risk management
Associate Professor David Lont
- Capital markets
- The economics of financial reporting and auditing
Dr Lynn McAlevey
- Financial modelling
- Risk management
- Applied statistics
- Statistics education
Nicola Mitchell
Associate Professor I M Premachandra
- Empirical finance
- Financial modelling
- Performance evaluation using DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) and its applications in finance
- Probability theory
- Simulation
- Application of operations research techniques in finance
Dr Helen Roberts
- The relationship between CEO compensation, firm performance and corporate governance
Mr Dyna Seng
- Cashflow accounting
- Financial accounting
- Financial management
- Accounting education
- Intellectual capital and firm performance
Dr Carolyn Stringer
Performance management including:
- the balanced scorecard
- EVA
- performance measurement
- target setting
- performance evaluation
- incentive systems
- risk management
- governance issues
Dr Paul Theivananthampillai
- Strategic management control systems
- Balanced scorecard performance management
- Research methods enterprise systems
- Strategic enterprise management risk management
- Corporate financial management E government
- Business value of information technology intellectual capital
Dr Ros Whiting
- Accounting treatment of intellectual capital and intangible assets
- Career and gender issues in the accounting profession
- Active-based student learning in accounting
- Business succession planning
Dr Kate Wynn-Williams
- Accounting and management issues relating to health and education
- Accounting history