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Governance, Business and Regulation

This Governance, Regulation and Performance research group focuses its research effort on the incentives, effects and consequences surrounding policy, compliance with and enforcement of both internal governance and externally imposed regulation on corporate Australia.

Corporate Australia is of immense importance to the Australian economy and to the economic and other well being of Australians. Confidence in the rule of law, credible financial reporting, and transparency, and business sustainability all influence flows of wealth on a global scale. The high profile corporate collapses of the early 2000s in Australia and elsewhere demonstrate the impacts on wealth, superannuation, confidence in the capital market, in the audit function and on employment when companies fail. This group conducts high quality, ethical, robust, qualitative and quantitative research into a wide variety of issues, having as their central theme corporate regulation and corporate governance, examining issues such as:

• Policy implications of corporations law and changes to it
• The impact and efficacy of regulation affecting Corporate Australia corporates
• Comparative regulatory and governance systems Capital market effects of regulation and governance
  • Impact of US Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002 on Corporate Australia
  • Governance in the Asia Pacific Region
• Capital market efefcts of regulation and governance
• Corporate Performance in its association with regulation and governance
• Board sub-committees
  • Membership and composition
  • Charters
  • Qualifications
• Multiple directorships
• Board diversity
• Accounting and auditing standard setting
• Financial Reporting behaviour
  • Earnings management
  • Fraud
  • Impact of adoption of Australian Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards
  • Voluntary abd regulated disclosures
  • Earnings Response coefficients
  • Financial distress
• Chief Executive Officer turnover, succession, compensation, selection
• Financial Reporting transparency
• Audit quality
  • Audit partner rotation
  • Auditor change
  • Audit fee modelling
  • Audit opinion modelling
  • Auditor industry specialization
  • Alternative forms of audit and assurance reports
  • Internal controls
• Auditor judgement
  • Effect of Auditing and Assurance Standards Board Standards made pursuant to CLERP 9
• Internal Audit
• Reporting Behaviour in Relation to Non-Financial Issues
  • Corporate citizenship and social responsibility
  • Corporate sustainability
  • Environmental
• Executive remuneration and disclosure
  • Association with corproate performance
• Insider trading
  • Corporate policy
  • Timing of directors' trades in association with corporate reporting
• Competition law
• Institutional sharholders and activism
• Initial and seasoned equity offerings
• Corporate Ethics
• Corporate Lobbying
• Related part transactions
• Competition law and policy
• Corporate Law Economic Reform Program
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Takovers
• Analyst behaviour
• Insolvency
• Risk Management in authorized deposit taking institutions, insurers and superannuation funds
• Cross company guarantees
• The role in the regulatory framework of corporate regulators and quasi regulators within an intitutional setting
  • Australian stock exchnage Australian Investments and Securities Commission (ASIC)
  • Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
  • Financial Reporting Council (FRC)
  • Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB)
  • Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Boards (AUASB)
  • Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
  • Companies Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board (CALDB)
  • Professional Accounitng Bodies (CPAA, ICAA, NIA)
• Interactive data (XBRL)

Convenor: Professor Christine Jubb

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