Our Mission

To conduct and disseminate research in accounting, governance and taxation to practice and to promote and draw on the Centre’s linkages to practice to assist the School in contributing to the University’s PBRF assessment.

Values

The Centre’s activities will reflect commitment to a number of key values:

• Integrity – the Centre will support a research environment in the School that reflect integrity and trust in the allocation of resources for research and in the conduct of research.
• Academic freedom – the Centre will support alternative styles of research with proposals being judged on the rigour of the methodology employed rather than the nature of the explicit or implicit value assumptions.
• Excellence – the Centre will expect and support achievement at the highest standards.
• Collaboration – the Centre will promote collegiality and teamwork in the conduct of research both within the School and with researchers at other institutions.
• Accountability – the Centre will demand accountability in respect of the resources it facilitates being made available for research and will hold itself accountable by public reporting.
• Treaty of Waitangi – the Centre is committed to the principles of the Treaty and will strongly support research on Maori resource management.

Vision

The Centre’s vision is to be actively involved with:

• the School in promoting the conduct of research, encouraging research degree enrolments and completions, assisting with obtaining external research funding, and,
• practice in disseminating research through seminars, conferences, Working Papers, an electronic journal and an email newsletter.