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Peter Richardson

Present position
Program Director for Graduate Certificate of Chartered Accounting Foundations

Tel: +61 3 9244 3817
Email: peter.richardson@deakin.edu.au

Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood

Academic Qualifications: Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) Deakin University (2008), Graduate Certificate of Higher Education Deakin University(2008)

Commenced at Deakin: 2006

Publications: Reported in the Deakin University Annual Research Reports since 1995

Research interests:

• Financial Accounting
• Auditing, Ethics
• Fraud
• Accounting Education

Publication Highlights

• Balancing Work and Lifestyle: an exploratory study of Chartered Accountants in Australia, presented at AFAANZ, The Gold Coast, 2007, (Richardson and Leung).
• Leung, P. and Richardson P. D. (2006), Work-life balance 2006, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Sydney

Forthcoming

• Leung, P. Cooper, B. J. Coram, P. Richardson, P. D. (2009), Modern Auditing and Assurance Services, 4th edn, Chapters 6 to 11, John Wiley & Sons, Milton, Queensland.

Current research projects

• PHD project commencing in 2008 current title “A study of professional accountants convicted of white-collar crimes and penalized with a custodial sentence”
• “Characteristics of Australian Chartered Accountants and the effect on their attitudes to job satisfaction and job turnover” to be completed 2008
•  “Student Use of Online Learning Resources and its Impact on Final Grades” to be completed 2008 - project with Luckmika Perera
• “Stereotypical Perceptions of Accountants” to be completed in 2009 - together with Steven Dellaportas, Chee Jin Yap and Luckmika Perera
• “Using ipods to disseminate lecture and tutorial presentations to students in distance learning programs” to be completed in 2009 - together with Steven Dellaportas and Luckmika Perera

Affiliations: Professional/Academic

• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand

Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin

• Corporate Accounting
• Corporate Auditing