Dr Michael Falta
Senior Lecturer
Dipl.Natw.ETH (Zürich), PhD, CPA
Tel 64 3 479 9268
Room CO 5.35
Email michael.falta@otago.ac.nz
Dr Michael Falta joined the University of Otago in June, 2009. He has held academic (Queensland University of Technology), private (consulting) and industry-academia interfaced (Australian Cooperative Research Centres) positions and received a PhD in applied computational statistics from the Queensland University of Technology.
His current research interests focus on capital markets, fundamentals of accounting measurement, bankruptcy prediction, multi-agent based modelling of price determination and value chain integrity. Michael has an interdisciplinary research portfolio and has published in ABACUS, International Statistical Review, Construction Management and Economics and Journal of Biophysics.
Teaching
• Convenor ACCT310
• Convenor ACCT320
• Convenor ACCT402
Research interests
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.
Supervision
Michael has supervised MCom, Honours and Internship students successfully to completion.
Current supervision:
Principal supervisor of Stephan Essendorfer: PhD
Principal supervisor of Frederico Botafogo: PhD
Research projects
- Summer Scholarship 2009/2010. Jointly funded research project (University of Otago, NZ government; $5000). Determinants of positive investor response at early project stages of biotechnical, medical research and innovation. Joint supervision with A/Prof M. Thorn, School of Medicine, University of Otago. Research staff allocated.
- Summer Scholarship 2009/2010. Jointly funded research project (University of Otago, NZ government; $5000). Value chain integrity. Research staff allocated.
- Summer Scholarship 2010/2011. University of Otago funded ($5000). Empirical and modelling approaches to Offer Acceptance Theory. Joint supervision with Prof M. Purvis, Information Sciences, University of Otago. Research staff allocated.
- 2011 University of Otago Research Grant ($4400). Value chain integrity. Research staff allocated.
- 2010 - Complex Systems Analysis Group, University of Otago. Multi-agent based modelling approaches to financial decision making.
Publications
Falta, M., & Gallery, N.; 2011 (November); “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Reporting Requirements for Small and Medium Size Construction Entities: Australian Evidence”; Construction Management and Economics, 29, 1121-1135. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01446193.2011.635666
Alexander, D., Falta, M., & Willett, R. (2011). Using Forecasting Criteria to Identify Value Relevance in the Relationship between Accounting Numbers and Market Value. ABACUS. Forthcoming.
Colin, A., Falta, M., Su, S., Turner, L., Willett, R., & Wolff, R. (2010). A Statistical Activity Cost Analysis of the Relationship Between Physical and Financial Aspects of Fixed Assets. Engineering Asset Management Review. 1, 123-135. http://www.springerlink.com/content/x3628k130q731348/
Falta, M., Gallagher, L., & Willett, R. (2006). Modelling Hard-to-Measure Costs in Environmental Management Accounting. Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal 1, 1, 127-144. http://eprints.ptar.uitm.edu.my/168/
Falta, M., & Wolff, R. (2004). Recent Developments of Statistical Approaches in Cost Accounting: a Review. International Statistical Review. 72, 3, 377-396. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/25472629
Pitera, J. W., Falta, M., & van Gunsteren, W. F. (2001). Dielectric Properties of Proteins from Simulation: The Effects of Solvent, Ligands, pH, and Temperature. Biophysical Journal. 80, 2546-2555. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1301444/pdf/11371433
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