ProfPrabhu Sivabalan

Prabhu Sivabalan is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise Learning), leading Enterprise Learning in UTS. He specialises in identifying the learning needs of corporate, not-for-profit or government entities, and connecting experts with them to further their organisational goals through upskilling and reskilling. He is also a Professor of Management Accounting and Control. Prior to pursuing an academic career, Prabhu was a cadet analyst in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. He has broad expertise in identifying gaps and better incentivising alignment between individual employee behaviours with desired organisational behaviours.

Prabhu research interests are broadly in the application of core accounting concepts such as budgeting and costing to innovative and far-reaching contexts not usually associated to accounting, such as healthcare, entrepreneurship and high innovation environments. He leads the Financial and Performance Transformation in Healthcare Group, a collaboration between NSW Health and the UTS Business School.

Prabhu has had his research accepted in reputable peer reviewed accounting journals since completing his doctoral thesis in 2007, including Accounting, Organizations and Society,Management Accounting Research,Journal of Management Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Accounting and Finance, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Managerial Auditing Journal, Australian Accounting Review and Journal of Applied Management Accounting Research. He has also published in non-accounting spaces, including the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences journal.

From a practice perspective,Prabhuhas researched in, presented to or trained managers in reputable institutions from a wide range of industries, including NSW Health, the National Rugby League (NRL), CSR, Citigroup and Seven Media. He has presented widely in academic and practitioner conferences with professional services bodies such as the CA, CPA and IPA bodies on the topic of budgeting and performance management more broadly. He is a Board member of the CIMA Asia Pacific Research Centre of Excellence, advocating for the relevance of management accounting to organisations globally.

Prabhu has strong research and teaching links with top academic institutions globally. He continues to be a visiting lecturer and researcher in the Department of Accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), having completed a sabbatical at the LSE in 2008-2009. He also researches with faculty in the Said Business School, Oxford University, and has lectured in their well reputed Executive MBA program on the subject Financial Management.

Prabhu has regularly been voted in the postgraduate and undergraduate top lecturer lists over the past 15 years, and was the inaugural recipient of the Accounting Discipline Group teaching prize.