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- Dr Carolyn Cordery – Appointment to the Lottery Community Sector Research Committee
- New Visiting Professorial Fellow to enhance city links
- InternetNZ Prize for academic achievement in COML 307: Legal Issues for E-Commerce
- Fellowship of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants awarded to four Alumni
- The experiences of a visiting PhD student
- Prof Judy Brown receives Awards
- AACSB Accreditation in Accounting
Dr Carolyn Cordery – Appointment to the Lottery Community Sector Research Committee
01 September 2011
Dr Carolyn Cordery has been appointed to the Lottery Community Sector Research Committee for three years.
The research committee funds community research and evaluation. A diverse range of community organisations apply each year for funding to help them evaluate interventions, extend local and overseas research to their own community, build their capacity to undertake evaluation and research and to share their findings with others.
Carolyn is passionate about the community sector and looks forward to serving on the Committee.
New Visiting Professorial Fellow to enhance city links
16 August 2011
A unique new role at the School of Accounting and Commercial Law will facilitate links between the School and Treasury.
Professor John Creedy arrived last month in Wellington from the University of Melbourne to take up a three-year fixed term position as Visiting Professorial Fellow.
This newly created position requires Professor Creedy to split his time evenly between Victoria University and the Tax Strategy section of the New Zealand Treasury.
He says that in his initial ‘settling in’ phase he is keen to meet a wide range of people.
“One of my main objectives is to encourage links between Treasury and Victoria, for instance to encourage young, bright Treasury staff to undertake part-time postgraduate study, as well as to encourage our postgraduates at Victoria to do research that is of interest to Treasury,” says Professor Creedy.
Professor Creedy says that research on New Zealand policy issues would be enhanced by the greater availability of the kind of Confidentialised Unit Record Files (CURFs) available in other countries.
“Access to data is currently very difficult for New Zealand academics, who often have to resort to using overseas datasets. I also believe that it is possible to produce work that is of direct relevance to New Zealand and can attract international attention.”
With 37 authored books and 17 edited books under his belt, and more than 250 refereed journal articles, Professor Creedy is a well-seasoned academic. His main research interests have been in public finance, public economics and labour economics. He has held full professorships in the UK, the US and Australia. He also has previous experience working in New Zealand Treasury, from 2002-2003.
“I‘m excited about the opportunity of doing policy-related work and linking it with academia,” he says.
InternetNZ Prize for academic achievement in COML 307: Legal Issues for E-Commerce
14 July 2011
The School of Accounting and Commercial Law in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration, Victoria University of Wellington is delighted to announce that InternetNZ has donated an annual prize of $750 for the best student in COML 307. The prize will be awarded from 2011.
We are most grateful to Internet NZ for this generous award, which reflects both the increasing importance of the internet for New Zealand businesses and the need for academic study of the relevant internet laws.
InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc. http://internetnz.net.nz/ ) is a not for profit, charitable, open membership organisation dedicated to protecting and promoting the Internet in New Zealand, including management of the .nz domain name space. The funds raised from management of the .nz domain name space are used to further the objectives of InternetNZ, which are:
- To promote easily available access to the Internet for New Zealanders including fibre to every home.
- To develop, maintain and disseminate standards for the Internet and its associated technologies and applications.
- To develop effective administrative processes for the operation of the Internet in New Zealand.
- To promote education and conduct research related to the Internet.
- To represent the common interests of the wider NZ Internet community.
- To support continued competitive provision of access to the Internet.
Further information about this prize can be found on our website: http://www.fis.org.nz/BreakOut/vuw/schols.phtml?prize+600283.
Fellowship of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants awarded to four Alumni
19 May 2011
Last year four alumni of Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Accounting and Commercial Law were awarded Fellowships of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants. Two of these awards were presented at the Wellington Presidential and Fellowship Dinner in late April 2011.
John Nash (second from left, back row) is Chief Advisor (International Audit) for Inland Revenue Department. He serves as Competent Authority for New Zealand and is responsible for resolving double taxation disputes, the negotiation of bilateral advance pricing agreements and exchanges of information with Treaty partners.
Dr Carolyn Cordery (front) is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law in the School of Accounting and Commercial Law at Victoria. Her prime research interests are in not-for-profit accounting and accountability. She is part of the Victoria University Volunteer Management Research Programme considering (amongst other things) the valuation of volunteers and is a former Chair of the Institute’s Not-for-profit Sector Advisory Committee. 
The experiences of a visiting PhD student
25 March 2011
Johan Christensen, PhD researcher at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy shares his experience of the time spent at the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Taxation Research and at the School of Accounting and Commercial Law:
I came to Wellington to do fieldwork for my PhD project on tax policy in small open economies. More specifically, I wanted to talk to public servants, politicians and practitioners that had been involved in tax policy-making in New Zealand over the last 30 years.
The Centre for Accounting, Governance and Taxation Research provided a perfect frame for conducting my research. Not only did I get useful advice and introductions to people I wanted to interview. I also had Parliament, Treasury and the Inland Revenue Department within five minutes walking distance from my office.
I even had the chance to present my research, both in the PhD colloquium and at a seminar organized by the Centre. This was invaluable, as it was the first opportunity for me to discuss my preliminary findings.
I had fortunately prepared well for the fieldwork, because six weeks in Wellington was only just enough time to study the relevant documents and conduct the interviews with the many interesting people relevant to my research.
However, what I had not anticipated was the hospitality and friendliness I experienced at the Centre. It stretched far beyond the morning tea and biscuits that gathered people around the coffee table at 10.30 am every morning. Having spent time at various universities, I can say that this is by far the most collegial and inclusive academic environment I have ever been part of. The lack of barriers between PhD fellows and professors, between academic staff and administration, and between people from places as diverse as Malta, Vietnam and (for a limited time) Norway is something every academic institution ought to copy.
Johan Christensen, PhD researcher in Political Science, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Prof Judy Brown receives High Commendation in Emerald/Mary Parker Follett Award & victoria University of Wellington Research Excellence Award
07 March 2011
Professor Judy Brown has been awarded a "Highly Commended" in the Emerald/Mary Parker Follett Award for 2010 for her paper "Accounting and visual cultural studies: potentialities, challenges and prospects" in the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. The journal is an A* Journal on the Australian Research Council's Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) journal rankings list. The award is voted on by members of the Editorial Board.
Judy also received a Victoria University of Wellington Research Excellence Award in 2010. Her research interests focus on the study of accounting in its social and political context. They include accounting and labour relations, corporate governance, sustainability assessment, critical theory and social accounting. Judy’s research aims to foster improved understanding of the philosophical perspectives underpinning traditional accounting theory and practice, and to contribute to the development of more multi-dimensional accountings that encourage dialogue across a range of socio-political perspectives. Professor Brown has published her work in top ranking international journals and serves on several editorial boards. She has acted as an advisor to the NZ Department of Labour on good faith bargaining, triple-bottom-line reporting and accounting for occupational safety and health. In 2008 she was appointed as one of 30 Node Directors in an international multi-disciplinary Spaces of Democracy Project, involving more than 1,000 academics worldwide. She was recently awarded $685,000 of Marsden funding for a project on Dialogic Accounting: The Challenge of Taking Multiple Perspectives Seriously. This follows completion of a six-year FRST funded project on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development.
AACSB Accreditation in Accounting
22 December 2010
The Faculty’s degree programmes are accredited by AACSB in both Business and Accounting.
AACSB International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business - was founded in 1916 and is the largest global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in business and accounting.
To realize accounting accreditation, the School had to satisfy not only the 21 AACSB quality standards for Business but also an additional set of 15 standards that are specific to the discipline and profession of Accounting.
The Faculty is the first in New Zealand to have obtained accreditation from AACSB in both Business and Accounting and less than 1% of business schools worldwide hold this distinguished hallmark of excellence.