The School of Accounting and Corporate Governance recently launched a new journal to showcase student writing and research. The first edition of Pacioli: The Journal for Student Writing was launched at the annual UTAS Teaching Matters Conference.
The Journal is known as Pacioli after Fra Luca Pacioli, the first person known to document accounting practices. Pacioli is a refereed journal for students from the School of Accounting and Corporate Governance.
John Minas, Sonia Shimeld and Simone Bingham won the Best Teaching Paper Award at the Australasian Tax Teachers Association Conference 2013, held at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The title of their teaching scholarship paper was "Using one-on-one interviews in tax teaching". The paper documented an assessment initiative used in the Master of Professional Accounting unit, Australian Tax Law, at the School of Accounting and Corporate Governance.
Simone Bingham and Sonia Shimeld, Lecturers with the School of Accounting and Corporate Governance, attended the recent Teaching Matters Conference in Launceston- Sustaining Futures: Considering sustainability across the learning and teaching divide 2012. (4th December 2012)
CRC ORE Research Funding Success
Professor Roger Willett and Dr Michael Falta, Honorary CRC Fellow, both of the School of Accounting and Corporate Governance, are among a team of nine researchers to receive funding for a CRC ORE research project.
Bernadette Smith and Patricia O’Keefe from the School of Accounting and Corporate Governance, with a UTAS colleague, won the Best Poster Prize at the 35th annual HERDSA Conference (Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia), 2012. HERDSA 2012 was hosted by the University of Tasmania in Hobart. Delegates came from around Australasia, as well as from elsewhere around the world.
The Best Paper Award was given to Associate Professor Sue Hrasky, Head of the School of Accounting and Corporate Governance (UTas) and Michael Jones from the Bristol University at the 10th Conference on Social and Environmental
Accounting Research (CSEAR) conference held in Launceston, Tasmania.
Dr Sonia Shimeld presented her paper “Governance and Accountability in Not-for-Profit Organisations” at the 16th International Business Research Conference in Dubai, in April 2012.
The paper, co-authored by Professor Gary O’Donovan, investigated how board members and CEOs of not-for-profit sporting organisations perceived governance and related governance structures in their organisations.
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