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Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)

Honours Research Topics 2007

The School of Accounting, Economics and Finance hosted the following Thesis presentations on 22, 23, and 24 October 2007 at the Melbourne Campus at Burwood:

Aaron Paisley
"Performance characteristics of Australian equity unit trusts"

Oliver Speidel
"Setting up a framework for decision making vis-a-vis terrorism"

Sutharson Kanapathippillai
"Effectiveness of CCAP in student learning: an exploratory study"

Rebecca Alston
"The long term performance of Australian listed property trusts IPOs"

Simmala Philavanh
"Underwriter reputation and underpricing - evidence from the Australian IPO market"

Katherine Warren
"Cost of capital raising for rights issues"

Barbara C. Marumahoko
"Corporate Collapse - a case study on Fincorp Group of Companies

Peter Richardson
"Characteristics of Australian Chartered Accountants and the effect on their attitudes to job satisfaction and job turnover"

Jonathan Watson
"Assessing Climate Change Models"

Johann Odou
"Public and private bidders; the impact on target returns"

Simon Fraval
"Issues in designing carbon permit auctions"

Shingi Chikwira
"Abnormal returns for optionable reverse split stocks"

Angela Poon
"How China has affected world metal prices and therefore Australia's terms of trade?"

Stan Getui
"Ex-dividend day: behaviour of stock prices and returns"

Matthew Lang
"The performance of Australian SRI funds: an empirical analysis"

Anthony Robert Joy
"Economics of guilt"

Alireza Vafaei
"Sustainability reporting by mining companies: determinants of its quality and its association with earnings management"

Matthew Patrick
"Revisiting the earnings response coefficient in the Australian Capital Market"

Rutendo Kaviya
"Do female board member and/or female signing audit partners affect earnings management?"

Geordan Murray
"Interim earnings announcement and stock price: the flow through effect on other classes of security"

Don McKay
"Return differences across markets"

Jessica Minor
"Corporate governance - an empirical Australian study of corporate governance environments that contribute to unethical business practice"

Geoffrey Michael Di Felice
"Abandoned mergers: Australian evidence"

Damien Farrugia
"On mutiple share buybacks: impact of business conditions"

Phillippa Dwyer
"Measuring the forecasting capability of implied volatility in the Australian warrant market"

Mark Rout
"The use of derivatives in the Australian banking industry"

Gracious Chidhakwa
"The relationship between transaction costs and managed funds performance"

Yu Du
"An investigation of TBL report assurance statements: Australian evidence"

Imroze Nandha
"An investigation of momentum in the Australian stock market"

Frank Lin