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Professor James Guthrie

15 January - 10 February 2011

This was Professor James Guthrie’s second visit to CAGS as a member of RPP and once again he had a very busy and productive stay in CAGS in January and February 2011.  As Head of Academic Relations for the Institute of Chartered Accountants (the Institute), Professor Guthrie with Professor Roger Burritt, coordinated collaboration of the Institute with CAGS for the 2nd forum in the CAGS/Institute Thought Leadership Series. The collaborative forum to investigate the contemporary challenges around accounting academe and the profession was held on the 1st February 2011 in the Bradley Forum and called ‘The Relationship between Academic Accounting Research and Professional Practice’. Attendees included over 70 senior academic and professional decision makers from around Australia. James also presented summary of the discussions and outcomes of the Forum to UniSA staff and research students, in addition to a separate seminar and interactive forum for UniSA and external participants titled ‘Reflections and projections: A Decade of Intellectual Capital Accounting Research’.

James found time to mentor and guide research students and staff by reviewing their papers and discussing their projects. James met regularly with staff and students including:

·         Professor Roger Burritt

·         Professor Janek Ratnatunga

·         Professor Lee Parker

·         Associate Professor Margaret Lightbody

·         Dr Paul Shum

·         Dr Basil Tucker

·         Dr Marilyn Waldron

·         Rob Whait

·         Gerard Stone

·         Susan Briggs

·         Sue McGowan

·         Dina Wahyuni

·         Dr Federica Farneti

·         Dr Sumit Lodhia

·         Amanpreet Kaur

·         Scott Copeland

·         Jenny Chen

Amongst the guidance James provided was feedback on grant applications and/or participation in new grant initiatives, and discussion of opportunities for publishing with the CAGS's academic journals. James also consulted with Professor Roger Burritt on maximising research output and performance and engaged with staff members in one-on-one meetings on the recommendations from this consultation.


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