Biography
Dr Sutha Kanapathippillai is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting in Deakin Business School. Sutha has extensive teaching in financial accounting and management accounting at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is a CIMA and CPA qualified accountant and has been involved in teaching financial reporting at CPA professional level programs.
Sutha has received a number of awards for his teaching at Deakin University. His research interests include corporate governance, voluntary disclosure, executive remuneration, and audit fees.
Read more on Sutha's profileResearch interests
- Executive remuneration
- Voluntary disclosure
- Corporate governance
- Accounting Education
- Rights offerings
Affiliations
- Member, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ).
- Member, American Accounting Association (AMA).
- Member, European Accounting Association (ECA).
Teaching interests
- Financial accounting
- Corporate accounting
- Management accounting
Units taught
- MAA363 - Corporate Accounting
- MAA261 - Financial Accounting
- MAA262 - Management Accounting
Conferences
- 'Directors’ turnover and audit fees', Journal of Contemporary accounting and Economics (JCAE), Taiwan, 5-7 January 2017.
- 'The Influence of Remuneration Committee Existence and Quality on CEO compensation', Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), Australia, 5-7 July 2015.
- 'Narrative Voluntary Executive Remuneration Disclosure And Use Of Attribution Strategy', Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), New Zealand, 6-8 July 2014.
- 'Remuneration Committee Quality and Narrative Voluntary Executive Remuneration Disclosure', Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), Australia, 7-9 July 2013.
- 'Issuance of Warrants in Seasoned Equity Offerings – Evidence from Rights Offerings', Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), Australia, 2011.
Professional activities
Awards
- Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (https://abdc.edu.au/2023-network-awards-teaching-and-learning/) -2023
- Vice-Chancellor's Award in the category of Education and Employability for CA Foundations development and implementation of a tailorable professional accounting conversion pathway through the CAANZ partnership - 2023.
- Faculty of Business and Law Teaching and Learning award for teaching excellence in the Department of Accounting - 2023.
- Outstanding Achievement Award for Supportive and Effective Teaching and Learning Leadership, Department of Accounting- 2023.
- Faculty of Business and Law Teaching and Learning award for outstanding commitment to development, teaching and mentoring excellence across the Department of Accounting programs and units -2022.
- Award for Academic Excellence and Mentoring of the Department of Accounting, Department of Accounting- 2022.
- Balanced Performance Award for the Excellence in Teaching, Research and Engagement from the Department of Accounting, Deakin University, 2019.
- Executive Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Business and Law 2018.
- Recognition for exceptional class performance - Financial Reporting Professional level Examination, CPA Australia, 2017.
- Outstanding contribution to teaching developing and management of the B.Com accounting courses, Department of Accounting, 2016.
- Outstanding contribution to teaching, Department of Accounting, 2015.
- Sustained teaching performance at post graduate level, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, 2010.
- Teaching Excellence Exemplars Award 2010.
- Best teaching across the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, 2009.
Publications
Director turnover, board monitoring and audit fees: Some Australian evidence
S Kanapathippillai, A Yaftian, S Mirshekary, H Sami, F Gul
(2024), Vol. 83, pp. 1-21, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Remuneration committees, CEO compensation, skills and retention
A Khan, S Kanapathippillai, S Dellaportas
(2023), pp. 1-23, Meditari Accountancy Research, Bingley, Eng., C1
Formative assessment in accounting: student perceptions and implications of continuous assessment
E Johansson, S Kanapathippillai, A Khan, S Dellaportas
(2022), pp. 1-29, Accounting Education, London, Eng., C1
Remuneration committees and attribution disclosures on remuneration decisions: Australian evidence
S Kanapathippillai, D Mihret, S Johl
(2019), Vol. 158, pp. 1063-1082, Journal of business ethics, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, C1
Compensation committees, CEO pay and firm performance
S Kanapathippillai, F Gul, D Mihret, M Muttakin
(2019), Vol. 57, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, C1
The Issuance of Warrants in Rights Offerings: Agency Costs and Signaling Effects
Balasingham Balachandran, Sutharson Kanapathippillai, Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti, Michael Theobald, Eswaran Velayutham
(2017), Vol. 42, pp. 608-636, Australian Journal of Management, London, Eng., C1
L Perera, S Kanapathippillai, G Wines
(2016), Vol. 24, pp. 134-148, Asian review of accounting, Bingley, Eng., C1
Remuneration committee effectiveness and narrative remuneration disclosure
S Kanapathippillai, S Johl, G Wines
(2016), Vol. 40, pp. 384-402, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, C1
Implications of a formative assessment task on student exam performance
S Kanapathippillai, A Khan, S Dellaportas
(2016), Vol. 11, pp. 133-154, Journal of international business education, Edinburgh, Scotland, C1
S Dellaportas, S Kanapathippillai, A Khan, P Leung
(2014), Vol. 23, pp. 362-382, Accounting education, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
The impact of a computerised consolidation accounting package (CCAP) on student performance
S Kanapathippillai, A Hasheem, S Dellaportas
(2012), Vol. 20, pp. 4-19, Asian review of accounting, Bingley, England, C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report