Ensuring audit quality through regulation: modelling how regulation can change audit partner behaviour. This project will develop a model of how characteristics of regulation can change audit partner behaviour. Guidelines to incorporate the model into regulators’ decision-making will be developed. These guidelines will provide regulators with a unique tool to ensure Australian audit regulation achieves its intended aim of improving audit quality.
Carbon accounting for managed urban environments: creating a conceptual process-based model. This project will develop a process-based model of the carbon cycle of a complex urban system - Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Melbourne, and validate the model in the RBG, Sydney. It will test alternative means by which carbon emissions information may be reported to provide information that is useful for the decisions made by diverse stakeholders.
Securing the future of financial services: Building a behavioural model of effective operational risk management. Securing the financial services industry is fundamental to the Australian economy. Effective operational risk management is vital to this goal. It requires appropriate attitudes to operational risk and widespread buy-in to risk management practices. This project will identify managerial controllable factors that ensure more consistent and widespread deployment of effective operationa ....Securing the future of financial services: Building a behavioural model of effective operational risk management. Securing the financial services industry is fundamental to the Australian economy. Effective operational risk management is vital to this goal. It requires appropriate attitudes to operational risk and widespread buy-in to risk management practices. This project will identify managerial controllable factors that ensure more consistent and widespread deployment of effective operational risk management practices and attitudes. It will inform the monitoring activities of regulators. In turn, it will enable the financial services industry to better avoid undesirable risks and to better manage the negative effects of unexpected events. This directly contributes to the future stability of the Australian economy.Read moreRead less
Improving fraud detection, financial reporting quality, investor confidence and market returns by using specialist auditors. As investors, managers and auditors grapple with the global financial crisis effects, this project's findings will help them by showing how and when auditor specialisation contributes to greater financial statement quality and returns. Investors will benefit from lower audit costs, increased audit quality and more credible financial statements.
Exploring returns to tone at the top: developing guidelines for effective risk management in retail financial services operations. Effective risk management is fundamental to the future of the Australian economy. This project will develop theory and managerial guidance for facilitating control in balancing risk and return in geographically distributed financial services operations. In turn, this will facilitate a more stable financial services industry and robust economy.