School Mission

To provide leadership in accounting thought and practice through excellence and relevance in teaching, research and community involvement.

School Objectives

• To provide high quality, relevant education in the accounting discipline that meets the challenges of a knowledge economy and the distinctive needs of key stakeholder groups;
• To contribute internationally to recognised research that furthers knowledge and improve practice in the accounting discipline;
• To encourage excellence in the practice of accounting through actively participating in government, community and private sector debates and decision-making;
• To foster and sustain the curiosity, creativity, lifelong learning and development of our staff and students.

School Strategic Intent

Our key operational principles are:

• Using the core-periphery distinction as an organising principle. That is we are continuing to develop a core of key staff who are committed both to excellent research and to excellent teaching. Our focus is on attracting enthusiastic new staff as well as senior professorial staff. In addition, we continue to ‘outsource' administrative tasks to a flexible 'periphery' in order that more academic time can be focused on research and teaching.
• Increasing the contemporary relevance of our degree programs.
• Reviewing our coursework programs in a comprehensive manner in line with changing market demands and a new focus on developing communication and integrative business skills.
• Increasing our interaction with, and forming mutually beneficial alliances with key universities overseas, professional service firms, the professional accounting bodies, industry and government.
• Accounting is a 'professional' discipline and as such it has always been important that strong links are built with the profession, government and major employer groups. As government reconsiders its funding of tertiary education, however, it is even more important that we explicitly consider the formation of diverse and sustainable alliances with different stakeholder groups for the mutual benefit of both. In addition, global research alliances would enable a sharing of ideas and funds on an international basis.