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Philomena Leung

Present position:
Professor in Accounting

Phone: +61 3 9251 7855
Email: philomena.leung@deakin.edu.au

Campus:Melbourne Campus at Burwood

Academic Qualifications: PhD RMIT, MAcc Glasgow, HDip(Acc) HKPU

Commenced at Deakin: 2004

Books/publications/monographs
Reported in the Deakin University Annual Research Reports since 1995

Research interests

• Ethics
• Governance
• Auditing (including internal audit and risk)
• Ethics Education

Publication Highlights

• Ethics in Accountancy: A Classroom Experience, Accounting Education - An International Journal, vol 3, no. 1, March 1994, Chapman and Hall, United Kingdom (International), pp19-33 (with Cooper)
• Accountants, Ethical Issues and the Corporate Governance contexts, Australian Accounting Review, March 2005 (with Cooper).
• Measuring Moral Judgement using Accounting and Social Dilemmas, Accouting and Finance, 2006 (with Dellaportas and Cooper).
• Cultural Impact on Chinese Corporate Disclosure - a corporate governance perspective, Managerial Auditing Journal, 2006 (with Qu).
• Approaches to the Development and Maintenance of Professional Values, Ethics and Attitudes in Accounting Education Programs. International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), August 2006 (with Cooper, Dellaportas, Jackling and Leslies).

Current research projects

• Revise and Resubmit, Developing a Flexible Framework for Ethics Education, submitted to Journal of Business Ethics, 2008 (with S. Dellaportas, B. Jackling, and B.J. Cooper)
• A framework for the qualitative research approach for an international study of ethics education in accounting (with B. Jackling, S. Dellaportas and B.J. Cooper).
• Asbestos and Corporate Moral Responsibility: the case of James Hardie Industries (with B.J Cooper, S. Dellaportas and B. James).
• Rebuilding and maintaining trust in accounting - a case for harmonisation of ehtics education (with B.J. Cooper, B. Jackling and S. Dellaportas).
• Internal audit in Australia - its role in corporate governance and management (with B.J. Cooper and Perera, Luckmika).
• Higher Education governance - the case of Australian Universities (with J. Christopher).

External Grants

• Role of Internal Auditing in Corporate Governance and Management in Australia competitive research grant at USD 12500 from the Institute of Internal Auditors Inc. Research Foundation (USA) with another $5000 from the Institute of Internal Auditors Australia. A matching grant of $27000 will be provided by the School of Accounting and Law.
• Ethics Education - Approaches to the development and amaintenance of ethics and values for accountants - tender awarded by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) for developing a flexible framework of ethics education of 158 countries. Leader: P Leung(Deakin), researchers: Professor B Cooper (RMIT), Associate Professor B Jackling (Deakin), Dr S Dellaportas (La Trobe/Ballarat); June 2004 to Sept 2005 USD $86000.
• Additional grant received from the ACCA and CPA Australia at a total of AUD $20000 to further support the research.
• Received a seeding grant ($5000 plus incidentals for 2005) from Professions Australia (PA) to conduct, as lead researcher, an ethics education project for its 25 member associations which comprise 25 profissional bodies in Australia, indluding the Legal, Medical and Engineering professions.
• Further grant to be received for Phase 2 of the project from PA at $10000 per annum for 2 years from 2007/8.
• Received a grant from the ACCA to conduct research on SMEs and the accounting regulation. The study is to complement similar studies done in the UK and in Canada and is jointly funded by the ACCA and CGA. Research grant to be received 2006/7 GBP 37500.
• Received a research grant of AUD 11000 to conduct the third cycle longitudinal study on Work and LifeStyle for Chartered Accountants. The project is funded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA).

Research Awards

• PhD scholarships 2003, 2004.

Affiliations - Professional/Academic

• F.C.C.A.
• F.C.P.A
• C.A
• M.I.I.A.

Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin

• Ethics
• Auditing