Enhancing integrated reporting: implications for internal and external reporting and assurance. There is an increasing global demand for companies to prepare integrated reports that includes both financial and nonfinancial information. This project uses a multidisciplinary approach to provide evidence on the claimed benefits of integrated reporting to inform the development of an international integrated reporting and assurance framework.
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.
Evaluating and enhancing the composition and functioning of multidisciplinary greenhouse gas assurance engagement teams. The purpose of this research is to understand and improve the functioning of multidisciplinary greenhouse gas assurance teams. A combination of archival and behavioural experiment research methods will be used to gain insights into current practice and techniques for optimising greenhouse gas assurance team performance.