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.