Discipline of Accounting

Anna is an Associate Professor in the Accounting Discipline Group. Her research focuses on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and innovation. She has published in a number of peer reviewed journals and her research has been widely circulated in major media publications such as Forbes, SMH, and AFR. She has previously been a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and Bocconi University.

Anna lectures in both undergraduate and postgraduate subjects on corporate business acquisitions and business analytics. She has consistently been voted in the Top 20 lecturers lists. She has previously received the Postgraduate Business Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award (2018 and 2019), the Undergraduate Business Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award (2011 and 2019) and a Teaching Citation in 2018. 

In addition to her research and teaching, Anna is passionate about widening participation and increasing student engagement. Anna is a board member of ActivateUTS and the Treasurer of Financial Research Network (FIRN). Prior to joining as a full time member, Anna completed her Honours degree with 1st class Honours and completed her PhD on the implementation of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

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.

I am a Master of Research student in the Accounting Discipline at the University of Technology Sydney. My research focuses on understanding how governance mechanisms shape corporate behaviour and accountability. I am particularly interested in empirical research that combines corporate data with regulatory and institutional contexts to provide insights into contemporary governance challenges. I aim to pursue an academic career that contributes to evidence-based discussions in corporate governance and financial reporting.

Paulo entered the PhD Program in April 2024 under Supervisors Professor Dr. Andrew Ferguson, Dr. Peter Lam, and Dr. Gabriel Pündrich (University of Florida). Thesis title: Mandatory long-term management forecast and legal institutional risk: evidence from mining feasibility studies. Paulo is a certified accountant in Brazil, researching and teaching in the areas of accounting and finance. Currently, he’s a research affiliate at Fucape Business School and a partner at Intelethos Ltd., a consultancy firm specializing in firm valuation and accounting. He has multiple publications in Brazilian and in International journals. His current Ph.D. at UTS explores corporate reporting, i.e., feasibility studies, in the mining industry.

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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.

Dr Mona Mashhadi Rajabi is the Decarbonisation Stream Lead at the Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience, where she specialises in climate policy, climate reporting, decarbonisation strategies, and net-zero transition pathways. Her recent work on the impact of the net-zero transition on global financial markets has received widespread coverage in Australian media which highlights its relevance to policy and practice. In recognition of her contributions, she received the 2025 Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Award for Transformative Action and Innovative Approaches to Climate Change.

Focusing on market-based policies, Dr Rajabi has examined the impact of carbon taxes on the economy and renewable energy transitions in Europe, and has applied these insights to design carbon tax policies for Australia that deliver both environmental and economic benefits. She has also developed methodologies to quantify climate risk at both the firm level and across the broader economy.Her research has been published widely in top-tier journals (A*/A/Q1), and she serves as a peer reviewer for leading sustainability and finance journals.

She has also received competitive grants from UTS Business Research Grant, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) for projects including “Capacity Development in Indonesia Carbon Market.”

Dr Rajabi is appointed to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) expert panel on corporate net-zero strategies, advising on policy and implementation.

Prior to her academic career in Australia, she worked as a lead researcher in industry, providing consulting to corporations on managing climate risk, low-carbon transition strategies, and climate policy impacts on the agri-food and energy sectors, bridging rigorous research, policy advice, and practical industry applications.

Awards and Scholarships:

• ABDC Award for Transformative Action and Innovative Approaches to Climate Change (2025)
• UTS Strategic Research Accelerator (SRA) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024)
• 1st Place – MQBS Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition (2022)
• International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (iMQRES) (2021)

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 School of Accounting and Finance 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 60 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, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, 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, Economics & Politics, 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 AASB, AFAANZ, CIFR and CPA Australia. Yaowen is a Fellow of Certified Practising Accountant (FCPA) and a Chartered Accountant (CA).

Associate Professor Nicole Sutton is highly engaged researcher, who delivers high-quality evidence that informs policy and practice across the aged care sector. As specialist in management accounting, A/Prof Sutton has deep expertise in how financial, management and performance systems influence organisations’ behaviour and decision-making. She has studied such systems in various fields including agriculture, R&D, supply chains, universities, end-of-life care and aged care. A/Prof Sutton has a strong track record of attracting grant income, supervising research students and publishing in top-tier journals in accounting, ageing and health.

Much of A/Prof Sutton’s current work focuses on improving the sustainability of Australia’s aged care services. She is a co-founder of the UTS Aging Research Collaborative (UARC), where she is the co-lead of the Business & Strategy Theme and lead author of the highly cited biannual Australia’s Aged Care Sector report series. She leads major collaborative projects with industry, including the UTS-StewartBrown strategic research partnership.

A/Prof Sutton frequently engages with government, industry and community to ensure research programs align with stakeholders’ priorities and insights are translated effectively. She regularly co-authors submissions to government, presents at industry conferences, engages with media, writes op-eds and gives invited presentations both domestically and abroad.

A/Prof Sutton is a passionate educator who has implemented a series of award-winning, research-informed, pioneering teaching innovations. She is particularly interested in enhancing students’ learning through sustained, collaborative programs of research-informed development, exploring how learning technologies can improve students’ sense of belonging, feedback literacy and career-readiness.

Outside her regular duties, has written for The Conversation and The Sydney Morning Herald. She is currently Treasurer of Palliative Care NSW.

Stephen Taylor is UTS Distinguished Professor of Accounting at the University of Technology Sydney, and is also Deputy Chair of the Australian Accounting Standards Board. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and currently serves the ASSA as Treasurer/Director, as well as the Panel B Committee. During 2016-17, Stephen served as the inaugural Australian Business Deans' Council Research Scholar, a position focussed on improving the quality and impact of research in Australian business schools, as well as research training. From 2009-2015 inclusive, Stephen served as Associate Dean-Research in the UTS Business School, culminating in their ranking as equal third in Business and Economics in the 2015 ERA results. For the 4 years 2012-2015, Stephen also served as Chair of the representative group of Australian and New Zealand business ADRs, BARDsNet. Stephen was a member of the ERA panel for Economics and Business for the 2015 and 2018 assessments.

Immediately prior to joining UTS in August 2008, Stephen was Professor of Accounting at the UNSW School of Business, where he also served as Acting Assoc Dean (Research) in 2005-2006. He has a PhD from UNSW (Australian Graduate School of Management) and is a CA and FCPA. He was first appointed to a Chair of Accounting at the University of Sydney in 1995, where he also served as Academic Director of the Accounting Foundation. In 2001 and 2002 he served as head of the School of Accounting at the University of Technology Sydney. Stephen has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan (Ross Business School) in 1993-4 and 1999-2000.

Apart from his leadership roles within the university community, Stephen has also had significant external industry and governance experience. He served as the Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee for the Rozetta Institute, having also previously served on the boards of both organizations from which this was formed (Capital Markets Co-Operative Research Centre and SIRCA).

Stephen's teaching and research is in the area of Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation. He has wide experience teaching at both the undergraduate and MBA levels, especially in the areas of accounting-based valuation models, investment analysis and financial reporting. He has been a presenter in many executive education courses and has provided expert advice to a wide range of private and public sector organizations, including the role of expert witness in Australia and overseas. Stephen served for over a decade as the academic advisor to a succesful, research-driven quantitative funds manager. He also co-ordinated the research program established by ASIC to undertake a statutory review of the Enhanced (Continuous) Disclosure Regime.

Stephen's research has been published in leading international journals, including the The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Corporate Finance. He has twice received the best paper prize from the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. He is a member of several editorial boards including Contemporary Accounting Research and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. From the 2012-2015, Stephen served as an Associate Editor of Accounting Horizons, the journal published by the American Accounting Association with the specific intent of broadening the application and readership of accounting research. He currently serves as Co-Editor of the International Journal of Accounting as well as being an Associate Editor of the Journal of International Accounting Research.

Apart from his involvement with the Capital Markets CRC, Stephen has received many large ARC Grants (Discovery and Linkage), as well as substantial funding from the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR), which he helped establish in 2013.He also currently serves the ARC as an expert assessor for a variety of funding schemes.

Jonathan Tyler is a former Associate Professor and former Deputy Head, Accounting Discipline Group. He researches in Financial Accounting, and Accounting Education and has taught Introductory, Financial and Management Accounting and Auditing. 

For 25 years Jonathan was the Company Secretary and a Director of Sydney Education Broadcasting (2SER FM) the University of Technology Sydney / Macquarie University radio station and a former director of Crossing the Line Sport Limited (a not-for profit company guiding athletes to success beyond their sports career). 

He is involved outside the University in the dissemination of business information to secondary schools and the community through Australian Business Week. Jonathan is the author of the innovative textbook, ACCT Financial aimed at making the introduction to accounting accessible, enjoyable and applied.