Doctoral study in Accounting

When you undertake your doctorate in Accounting at the University of Auckland Business School, you’ll join a high-calibre research community and have opportunities to publish papers, attend international conferences and develop a network in academia and industry.

We welcome research proposals in topics relating to our two key research specialisations:

Financial accounting

• Financial reporting and its impacts
• External auditing
• Social and environmental accounting
• Accounting policy decisions
• Integrated reporting

Financial management

• Management control
• Diffusion of innovation in management accounting
• Management accounting systems and behaviour in organisations
• Transfer pricing in multinationals
• Performance measurement

Pursue your topic with us and benefit from the support and supervision of internationally recognised researchers.

Professor Norman Wong (Head of Department)
Financial accounting; capital markets and accounting information; governance issues in accounting; accounting policy choice; taxation and accounting and research methods in accounting

Dr Davood Askarany: Diffusion of innovation, management accounting, organisational change, performance measurement and diffusion theoryDr Sharlene Sheetal Narayan Biswas: Management accounting, new product development, open innovation and auditing

Professor Steven Cahan: Auditing and financial reporting

Dr Lily Chen: Financial reporting and disclosure, financial analysts, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and integrated reporting

Dr Julie Harrison: Performance measurement, data envelopment analysis, revenue management, international tax and transfer pricing

Professor David Hay: Auditing issues internationally and in New Zealand, including auditor independence, corporate governance and privacy auditing

Dr Fred Ng: Revenue management, customer accounting, customer analysis, and revenue and cost drivers.

Dr Winnie O’Grady: Management control systems, viable system approaches to performance management, and adaptive performance management models (eg, beyond budgeting approaches)

Professor Paul Rouse: Performance and productivity measurement with specialist applications to transport, education and health

Professor Jilnaught Wong: Contracting and agency issues in financial accounting, earnings management and corporate governance

• 'The Effect of Earnings Management Constraints on Management Earnings Forecasts: Evidence from Japan' | Supervised by Professor Norman Wong  and Professor Steven Cahan
•  ‘Sustainability: An Evaluation of Reporting, Disclosure and Performance’ Supervised by Dr Davood Askarany and Professor Paul Rouse
•  'A Multi-Stakeholder Framework for Performance Management of Community Health Services Contractors' | Supervised by Professor Paul Rouse and Dr Winnie O'Grady
•   'Privacy Audits: Expectations and Implementation' | Supervised by Professor David Hay and Associate Professor Gehan Gunasekara

University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarships

Barry Spicer and Owen G Glenn PhD Scholarship

Non-University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarships

Phone the University

•  923 7186 (within Auckland)
•  0800 61 62 63 (outside Auckland)
• +64 9 373 7513 (overseas)