Grants and Projects 2009
- ARC Linkage Program: Modelling Factors Affected the Long-Term Demand for and Supply of Professional Accounting and Allied Services in Rural and Regional Australia
- ARC Linkage Program: Making better decisions about built assets: learning by doing
- Policy Options for Improving the Value of Land Use in Smallholder Agriculture in the Fijian Islands
- How Attractive is Accounting as a Career Choice for Secondary School
- Consolidation within the Australian Real Estate Investment Trust Sector: An Evaluation of the Impact of Uniholder Returns
- The Emergence of Chinese Yuen Bloc in the Asia Pacific Region
- Australian Domestic Demand Elasticities for Rural Marketing and Policy Analysis
ARC Linkage Program
Modelling Factors Affected the Long-Term Demand for and Supply of Professional Accounting and Allied Services in Rural and Regional Australia
Funding body: CPA Australia
Description: Rural and regional areas accommodate more than a third of Australia's population and generate two-thirds of its net export income. While accounting firm services provide substantial economic benefits to society, there are significant differences in the provision of these accounting services in rural and regional areas compared to metropolitan areas in Australia. Rural and regional accounting firms face servicing difficulties arising from industrial restructure, changing population densities, and difficulties in professional staff recruitment, but there has been little systematic analysis of rural and regional accounting and allied services. This research aims to build and test a model of factors affecting the demand for and supply of accounting services. The model can be used to monitor and manage accounting firm services to advance regional development in Australia.
The project will assist the accounting profession in establishing effective strategies and policies for the education, training and recruitment of professional staff in regional communities. The project will assist in ensuring that professional accounting and allied services can meet future regional demands, with the potential for the modelling developed by the research to be applied to other rural and regional services.
Team: Professor CB Ferguson, Professor BJ Cooper, Associate Professor GL Wines and Associate Professor BF Jackling. Additional investigators P. Hellier and R. Carr
Making better decisions about built assets: learning by doing
LP0990261
Project Summary
This research will assist the built environment professions and their clients to make better decisions about new developments through a novel 'learning by doing' approach. Used successfully in other fields such as natural resource management, this idea will capitalise on the large number of asset investments undertaken to benchmark original stakeholder intentions and aspirations against the reality of current performance. Decisions will be re-evaluated in the context of contemporary economic, social and environmental criteria to enable existing multi-criteria models to deliver more sustainable outcomes that are also feasible and in the national interest, and consequently minimise the industry's current exposure to future climate change.
2009 : $ 30,000
2010 : $ 60,000
2011 : $ 60,000
2012 : $ 30,000
Primary RFCD 3199 OTHER ARCHITECTURE, URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND BUILDING
APA(I) Award(s): 2
Administering Organisation Bond University
Team: Prof Dr CA Langston; Prof Dr J Smith; A/Prof G Herath; Dr S Datta; Dr HK Doloi; Dr RH
Crawford
Other Grants and Projects
Policy Options for Improving the Value of Land Use in Smallholder Agriculture in the Fijian Islands
Funding body: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Description: Following a recent WTO ruling, the price support for Fiji s sugar production under the current EU sugar regime is set to be phased out with possibly devastating effects on the industry and the economy in general. The chances of developing and implementing appropriate agricultural policies in Fiji to deal with this and related problems are currently constrained by the lack of the fundamental economic information required for informed decision making. For example, policy makers do not have access to reliable information on critical market parameters such as the responsiveness of producers and consumers to food price changes. Nor is there is any framework for quantifying the likely impacts of food and agricultural policy changes on community well-being. And at the most fundamental level, policy makers have no reliable information on the production, sales and consumption of smallholder or subsistence farmers and fishermen who are generally counted among the poorer people in Fiji. This means there is no basis for reliably estimating either the present size of the agriculture and fishing sectors as a whole, or the full dimension of the impacts of policy changes on these sectors. This project is aimed at building the capacity of the local policy community to deal with these problems through a series of targeted collaborative research projects.
Team: Henry Haszler and Professor Hristos Doucouliagos from Deakin University; Sakiusa Tubuna, Paula Taukei, Apenisa Tuicakau, and Waisiki Gonemaituba from the Fiji Islands Ministry of Agriculture, Sugar and Land Resettlement; Epeli Waqavonovono from the Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics; and Chris Ryan and Garth Parry from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community based in New Caledonia.
How Attractive is Accounting as a Career Choice for Secondary School Students?
Funding body: AFAANZ
Description: This project investigates secondary school students' perceptions of the work of an accountant and the accounting profession. The aim is to identify factors influencing secondary school students to study accounting at university. The significance of the project is that it is designed to assist in identifying the attractiveness of the profession and therefore addressing the skills shortage in accounting in the longer term. The study specifically addresses personal and social influences on choice of career of secondary school students with reference to the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). Using this model, behavioral and normative beliefs are identified and examined as motivating forces in students' possible career selection of accounting. The project will provide insights to identifying influences on perceptions of the profession so that ultimately the profession can identify ways of more adequately meeting the needs of the market place for graduate accountants
Team: T. McDowall and Associate Professor B. Jackling
Consolidation within the Australian Real Estate Investment Trust Sector: An Evaluation of the Impact of Uniholder Returns
Funding body: AFAANZ
Description: The Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) (formerly Listed Property Trust) market has become a significant part of the financial sector over the past decade. However, a limited supply of investment grade property in Australia has forced A-REITs to target other trusts in order to grow to meet the demand of higher returns. The resulting merger and acquisition activity has seen the number of A-REITs decreased from 51 in 1999 to 25 in 2006. The purpose of this research is make an assessment of the impact of merger and acquisition activity within this industry. Using an event study methodology it is intended specifically, to investigate wealth effects accruing to A-REIT shareholders from both the bidding and target firms viewpoint.
Team: Christopher Ratcliffe and Associate Professor Monica Keneley
The Emergence of Chinese Yuen Bloc in the Asia Pacific Region
Funding body: AFAANZ
Description: Following the refinement cointegration estimation technique with a large high frequency dataset on the trading of currencies on six emerging economies plus four currencies from the developed economies in the region, This project attempts to update the findings of studies on establishing currency bloc and the potential anchor currency for the currency bloc.
Team: Professor Gerard Gannon and Chee Jin Yap
Title: Australian Domestic Demand Elasticities for Rural Marketing and Policy Analysis
Funding body: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
Team: M. Ulubasoglu, D. Mallick, M. Wadud and H. Haszler
