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CAGS News and Events 2010

CAGS / Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia 2010 Future of Accounting Education Forum

• A collaborative forum between the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Sustainability and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, was held on 4th of February 2010. The purpose was to investigate contemporary challenges around accounting education, academia and the Accountancy profession in Australia. Please find details, photos and slides of the speakers presentations here.
• A joint publication has also been released because of the event - please find detail of Accounting Education at a Crossroads in 2010 here.

CAGS / Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia AAMI Stadium - Increasing Engagement with the Profession

• CAGS was fortunate to host guests in the Division of Business corporate box at AAMI Stadium on the 17th April 2010. The corporate box provides the benefits of hosting a private function with key contacts whilst enjoying the spectacular views from behind the Northern goalposts. Located on the 2nd level of AAMI Stadium and featuring comfortable seating, LCD TV and delicious catering, the venue provided a relaxed forum yet exciting atmosphere for development of productive linkages with the accounting profession. Thanks are due to Jo Tingey-Holyoak, CAGS’ Research Administrator for the organisation of this successful day.
• CAGS guests included at the event included:
  • Mark Jones, General Manager SA/NT – Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
  • Peg Miller, Relationship Manager –  Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
  • Darren Ball, Partner – KPMG
  • Ben Miels, Managing Partner – Edwards Marshall
  • Mark Phelps, Partner – Ernst Young
  • Garry Whitelock, Director – BDO (SA) Pty Ltd
  • Brooke MacKenroth, Manager – BDO (SA) Pty Ltd
• CAGS hosts included Professor Burritt, Professor Ratnatunga, Associate Professor Brenton Fiedler, and Dr Mei Lim.
• The event was a successful opportunity to increase engagement with the profession and an enjoyable day was had by all, despite the Crows 48 point loss to Carlton!
  

Business Forum 2010

• CAGS hosted a booth including a Barista at the 2010 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia Business Forum at the Hilton Adelaide from 9th-11th June 2010.
• Financial crisis, global warming, scarce resources – the events and issues of recent times, as well as a growing social and environmental awareness, have raised some big questions for our increasingly interconnected world.
  Guests at the event were there to get the answers to the big questions (and a lot of the smaller ones) facing the economy, the environment and the profession at the business event of the year attended by over 970 delegates.
  Big ideas. Big names. Including the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Sustainability.
• As well as providing all the latest updates, case studies, technical and professional skills, Professor Burritt chaired and facilitated many sessions at Business Forum 2010 which showcased directions from an impressive line up of thought leaders across the business and political spectrum.
• Photos of the event can be found here.
• See Jo Tingey-Holyoak for further information.
  

ANU Exchange 2010

• CAGS have created a seminar exchange program with the ANU whereby PhD students and ECRs can go to the ANU to exchange ideas and attend PhD/ECR workshops and attend seminars from distinguished and influential academics.
• The 2010 visit on the 7th - 9th of July boasts seminars from Professor Chris Chapman (Imperial College Business School, Editor-in-Chief, Accounting, Organisations and Society Journal) and Professor Dean Neu (Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Associate Editor, Critical Perspectives on Accounting).
•  Expressions of interest were considered by the panel of Professor Roger Burritt, Professor Lee Parker and Professor Janek Ratnatunga to travel to the ANU event and represent CAGS at the workshop and other presentations by Professor Chris Chapman and Professor Dean Neu.
• Congratulations to Amanda Carter, Jenny Chen, Dr Basil Tucker and Susan Lambert who were selected.

APIRA 2010

• The Sixth Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA) Conference was held in Sydney, Australia 11-12 July 2010. CAGS was a major sponsor of APIRA 2010 which attracted strong representation from interdisciplinary accounting researchers the world over with papers addressing the relationships between accounting, auditing and accountability and their social, institutional, economic and political environments. CAGS had a table at APIRA to publicise the research activities and journals associated with CAGS. A new brochure was available which outlined the research strengths of the CAGS team.

Symposium SA

• CAGS was proud to host the doctoral research conference on the 22nd July 2010. The conference was held at the University of South Australia’s Bradley Forum in the architecturally acclaimed Hawke Building with the aim of encouraging and stimulating quality research activities in the fields of accounting, finance and regulation within South Australia. PhD students had an opportunity to present their work and had it assessed and discussed by a panel of leading academics and international guest speakers. The symposium featured a panel session providing expert opinion on what new and future research directions will likely emerge in the near and long term.
• Congratulations to Adam Loch (University of South Australia) on winning best paper in regulation, Amanda Carter (University of South Australia) for best paper in accounting, and Manish Agarwal (University of South Australia) for best paper in finance and best overall paper.

CAGS/CPA Australia AAMI Stadium Event - Increasing Engagement with the Profession

• Professor Roger Burritt, Associate Professor Brenton Fiedler and Associate Professor Margaret Lightbody from the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Sustainability (CAGS) were hosts of a number of CPA Australia members on Saturday 31 July in the Division of Business Corporate Box at AAMI Stadium. The event, organised by Joanne Tingey-Holyoak, provided an opportunity for CAGS to build towards its full Advisory Board membership.
• In attendance were Langdon Blight, General Manager, and Matt Gollley, Business Development Manager, of CPA Australia’s South Australia Office; Alan Martin, General Manager, Corporate Services, and Steven Woolhouse General Manager Strategic and Financial Management both with the SA Government Department of Treasury and Finance; Les Jones, Director Corporate Affairs Branch, Department of Premier and Cabinet; John Morgan, Director, Financial Services Reform, SA Government Department of Health; and Michael Sedgman, General Manager Corporate at Adelaide City Council. A number of partners, Tricia Burritt, Lucrezia Binetti, Brianna Woolhouse, as well as Chris Jones enjoyed our hospitality and a thrilling match.

CAGS Special Seminar: Your research - engagement and feedback

• During July 2010 CAGS hosted a number of international visitors and conferences (see symposiumSA, and CAGS RPP), sponsored visits to other universities for its early career researchers (see visit to ANU) and PhD by research students. So on Thursday 5th of August, CAGS thought it timely to consider the lessons learnt through these events and the endeavour which is academic research.
• During the session those involved with the events of the past few weeks discussed research as a purposeful and skilful activity, how to view the PhD process as a research project and the thesis submission as a milestone not the outcome, learning skills which can be put into practice for conferences, explore publishing practices and timeframes and more – all of which contribute to the creation and maintenance of a well-rounded and highly skilled academic. The session, chaired by Professor Roger Burritt, was well attended by many academics and higher degree by research students and early career researchers experienced great benefit from the discussions.

CAGS Seminar: Being a discussant

• On Tuesday 31st of August Associate Professor Margaret Lightbody, on behalf of CAGS, hosted an initiative an designed to introduce new academics, those working towards their PhD or early career researchers, and established researchers, to the art of being a discussant. Being a ‘discussant’ at a research conference is an important step towards developing your own research profile in the wider academic community.
• Margaret generated and facilitated discussion on how to go about preparing a discussant’s report, what you need to do to ensure your report is helpful to your author, and how to ensure that you leave the audience with a view of you as a knowledgeable and thoughtful person.
• The session also considered how to prepare and deliver an appropriate and entertaining discussant’s report by working through a practical example using a real paper.
  

2010 Annual Qualitative Colloquium 

• CAGS hosted the 3rd annual Colloquium in Qualitative Research in Business led by Professor Lee Parker and CAGS RPP Member Professor Sue Llewellyn (Manchester Business School). This intensive colloquium for academics and postgraduate students in the business and commerce-related disciplines combined presentations from two experienced qualitative researchers with interactive forums covering a range of methodological issues and research methods. The Colloquium was designed to support interaction and discussions between researchers already engaged in qualitative research, academics and postgraduates considering or embarking on a qualitative research project, and those researchers, postgraduates and honours degree students wishing to familiarise themselves with these research traditions.

Welcome to the World of the Research Reviewer Seminar

• The Centre for Accounting, Governance and Sustainability recently held another very successful research seminar for staff and PhD students, this time on the topic, The World of the Research Reviewer. The seminar covered the whole range of reviewing, including Literature reviews, book reviews, Journal article reviews and reviewing of research grant applications. Fifty people attended, about half from the School of Commerce and the rest from other areas of UniSA and several from other Universities.  
• The seminar was chaired by Professor Lee Parker and six School of Commerce staff participated as presenters, namely: Professor Jennifer McKay, Susan Lambert, Dr Gerard Stone, Dr Sumit Lodhia, Assoc Professor Petko Kalev and Professor David Parker. It was concluded with a presentation on reviewing research grant applications by Professor Carol Kulik.
• Views from a presenter:
  “Thanks for organising such an excellent event. I am also very grateful to all presenters – through that process of preparing for workshop and listening to others I’ve learned so much myself!”
   And a participant:
  “ – it really was first class, and I have made the effort to tell most of the presenters this. Not only did it provide practical, relevant and time-saving tips for us, it was (I thought) quite motivational and inspiring, to be frank. Now to put it into practice!!!”

December 2010 Charter

• The December 2010 issue of Charter featured CAGS RPP Member Professor James Guthrie. The article highlights the importance of collaborating with industry and the profession and features the CAGS/Institute Accounting Education at a Crossroads thought leadership forum in 2010 and resulting publication that brought contemporary challenges facing accounting educators to the fore (column 2).
• The article can be accessed here.

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