David Bedford is a Professor at UTS Business School in the Accounting Discipline. David is internationally recognized as a leading researcher in the field of management accounting and control. His research focuses on the design of performance measurement systems in firms pursuing different types of innovation, how combinations of management controls are designed to align to strategic objectives, the use of management controls in supporting organizational sustainability, and the role of accounting in deliverying public healthcare. 

David has published his research in leading academic journals, including Accounting Organizations and Society, Management Accounting Research, and Journal of Management Accounting Research. David is an Associate Editor at the British Accounting Review and Journal of Management Control, and is an editorial board member of Accounting, Organizations and Society, Management Accounting Research, and European Accounting Review.

David is actively engaged with practice, having experience in collaborative projects with a range of government, industry, professional, and social enterprises, including ANZ, Telstra, Acciona, CPA Australia, NSW Health, the Independent Health Pricing Authority (IHPA), and the Cleaning Accountability Framework (CAF). He is an invited speaker at academic and industry conferences and is highly regarded in delivering tailored executive education and specialist training, covering topics such as performance management, data literacy, data informed decision-making, and cost management.

Rina is a qualified chartered accountant and holds the position of Senior Lecturer within the Accounting Discipline Group of the UTS Business School.

Rina has 10 years of teaching and research experience at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), University of New South Wales (UNSW) and University of Sydney (USyd). She holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of New South Wales, with research publications in international accounting journals.

Rina also has 8 years of accounting and auditing experience, including business development and management accounting experience in a Singaporean SME, Big 4 audit experience in Deloitte Sydney and Ernst & Young Singapore.

Andrew Ferguson is a Professor of Financial Accounting at UTS. His research has been published in leading journals both nationally and internationally including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, European Accounting Review, Auditing, A Journal of Practice and Theory, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, Accounting and Finance, Industrial and Corporate Change; Australian Journal of Management and Abacus.

Yolanda is an experienced researcher at the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative and an educator at the UTS Business School. She holds a Bachelor of Business (Honours) and a PhD in Accounting from UTS Business School. Prior to joining UTS, Yolanda worked as an in-house business consultant for large multinational companies. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Political, Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Sydney.

Yolanda brings extensive experience in interdisciplinary research projects that employ both quantitative and qualitative methods. Her research on regulation and compliance related issues in Australian aged care sector has lead to a range of industry reports and submissions to the Commonwealth Government of Australia, including the widely cited biannual Australia’s Aged Care Sector report series. In addition to industry engagement, Yolanda published peer-reviewed research in leading health and accounting journals on topics related to regulation and compliance, corporate governance and management accounting.  

Le (Hayley) Ma is a Senior Lecturer at Accounting Discipline Group at the University of Technology Sydney Business School. She is a member of the Methodological and Empirical Advances in Financial Analysis Research Group at University of Sydney, a member of Financial Research Network in Australia and a member of Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Prior to joining UTS in 2016, Hayley was a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School. Hayley has a PhD in accounting from University of Sydney, which studies the management and economic impact of intangible assets. Hayley was a visiting scholar at ESSEC Business School, Singapore and Renmin University, China in 2023, Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management, US, in 2020, and a visiting scholar at the Smeal College of Business Pennsylvania State University, US, in 2014. 

Hayley's main research expertise is in corporate investment decisions in innovation, their impact on firm performance and value, and how innovation activities are reported and disclosed by firms. She also has extensive research experience in the information environment of capital markets, financial reporting and disclosure, advancing our understanding of investors’ investment decisions and business valuations. Hayley's research is transdisciplinary in nature, integrating knowledge of different disciplines to obtain comprehensive understanding of real business issues and provide practical solutions. Her research has been published in international and national leading journals including Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, International Journal of Production Economics, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Abacus, Accounting and Finance.

Hayley received the UTS Business School Early Career Research Achievement Award in 2021 because of her impact on corporate innovation research and contribution in enhancing the University’s research excellence through international research networks. She has also received internal and external competitive research grants such as Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Developing Researcher Grant and UTS Business Research Grants.

Hayley teaches financial statement and business analysis at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at UTS. She has written three Harvard Case Studies with colleague at Harvard Business School. Hayley has supervised five Accounting Honours students since 2017, and has provided mentoring to the Higher Degree Research students at Accounting Discipline Group at the UTS Business School.

Apart from research and teaching, Hayley is also actively engaged with industry partners and government agencies. She has been invited to present her research at various stakeholder events including IP Australia, Australian Accounting Standards Board Research Forum, Oceania Stata Users Group Meeting.

Dr. Nelson Ma is an Associate Professor in Accounting at the UTS Business School. His research interests are in audit, corporate governance and aged care with a focus on understanding how to improve decision making and information disclosures in organisations to provide better outcomes to their stakeholders and society. Nelson has published widely in peer-reviewed academic journals in management, health, finance and accounting including Contemporary Accounting Research, Australian Journal of Management and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.

He is co-lead of the Business and Strategy Theme in the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC) and a co-author of UARC's bi-annual Australia Aged Care Sector Report. His has been involved in over $500,000 in external research funding from government and industry organisations. This research and industry reports havee featured in Government policy documents and media outlets including ABC News, Forbes Magazine, the Australian Financial Review, the Guardian and the Sydney Morning Herald. His efforts in research engagement have been recognised with 2023 UTS Business School Achievement Award in External Engagement. 

Nelson has taught at the postgraduate and undergraduate level in financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, corporate consolidation and business valuation featuring in the Business School's top teachers lists in 2023 and 2024. His contributions to student learning extend beyond the classroom with a focus on extra-curricular student development. Between 2018 and 2023, Nelson was faculty advisor of UTS Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, a accounting, finance and IT honours society that focus on community service and professional development. During his tenure, the UTS Chapter was internationally the most awarded chapter from over 320 other universities in Australia, New Zealand and the United States,. 

Since 2019, Nelson has been program director of the UTS Case Team, an internationally awarded program for UTS Business School students competing in case solving. The UTS Case Team has placed 1st in six international case competitions since 2019. The initiative includes the UTS Global Case Competiiton, UTS Case Cup and UTS Leadership insights interview series, and partners with ASX companies including Macquarie Group and QBE Insurance. For his work on engaging students across the university through the UTS Case Team, Nelson was awarded the 2024 UTS Vice-Chancellors Learning and Teaching award for student engagement. 

From 2020 to 2023, Nelson was Deputy Head (Staff) in the UTS Accounting Discipline Group, and currently serves on the Editorial Board of Pacific Accounting Review.

As the Policy Advisor for UTS' Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC), I bring UTS colleagues together to drive evidence-based policy changes in aged care. I am focused on bridging the gap between research, policy and practice. I am an experienced public policy advisor with Government, academia and the third sector. Focused on sustainable and affordable consumer outcomes. Strong professional skills in governance and financial risk management. Proven ability to engage stakeholders and deiver outcomes. Advocate for incusive workplaces. Experienced in interpreting political and economic developments and implications.

Greg Pazmandy has been involved in accounting education at the tertiary level for over thirty years and has developed and presented undergraduate, postgraduate and executive programs in Australia and internationally. Previously he worked in the accounting profession with a chartered firm. He also works in the profession providing accounting solutions that support the development of efficient business practices for small to medium sized businesses.

Greg lectures in the area of business analysis and computer based accounting. His research interests include corporate governance, capital markets and the application of information technology for the development of efficiencies in business processes using accounting information. 

Dr Mila Radomskaia is a lecturer in the Accounting Department at UTS Business School. She has taught across a number of undergraduate accounting subjects, including first-year subjects (Accounting and Accountability, Accounting, Business and Society) and specialised accounting subjects (Accounting Standards and Regulations, Cost Management Systems). Mila's research interests are board structure and diversity, director labour market, and CEO compensation.

Prior to joining UTS Business School, Mila had worked for 14 years as a professional accountant in various areas of financial accounting and analysis in large corporations. Her professional responsibilities included managing and supervising the general ledger reconciliations, managing the fixed assets ledger, conducting income tax reconciliations, intra-group reconciliations, preparing financial statements, supervising subsidiaries’ closing processes and preparing consolidated reports, training new accounting staff, and liaising with external and internal auditors.

Yaowen Shan is a Professor in the Discipline of Accounting at the University of Technology Sydney. He is currently serving as the Australian President of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). His research lies at the intersection of accounting and financial economics, with a strong focus on how accounting and non-accounting information influence capital markets, regulatory design, corporate governance, financial reporting quality, and executive compensation. Yaowen has authored more than 50 publications in leading international journals, including The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Abacus, Accounting and Finance, and Australian Journal of Management. He currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Australian Accounting Review and Accounting Research Journal, and as an Associate Editor of Accounting and Finance, Australian Journal of Management, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation and China Journal of Accounting Research. Yaowen has received multiple Best Paper Awards at major international accounting and finance conferences. He has secured over AUD $2 million in competitive research funding, including four ARC Discovery Grants, and several other national competitive grants such as those from CIFR and AFAANZ. Yaowen is a Fellow of Certified Practising Accountant (FCPA) and a Chartered Accountant (CA).

A/Professor Helen Spiropoulos has a portfolio of research in the areas of Sustainability Reporting, Gender diversity, Financial Reporting, Executive Compensation, Corporate Governance, and Mergers and Acquisitions. 

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and a Bachelor of Business with First Class Honours from UTS, for which she received the University Medal. In 2014 she completed a PhD in Accounting at UTS and received the distinguished Chancellor List Award. Her doctoral work was also recognised internationally, receiving the Best Paper Award at the JCAE Conference in 2016.

Helen's research has been published in leading journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Management Accounting Research and Journal of Corporate Finance, and has also featured in prominent media outlets including The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, BOSS Magazine, ABC Radio, 2ESR, and The Conversation.

Helen has extensive leadership experience as former Deputy Associate Dean (Learning Innovation) of the UTS Business School during the disruptive COVID-19 period and as the Associate Editor of Australian Journal of Management and Managerial Auditing Journal.