Sutha Kanapathippillai

Position

Director of Teaching and Deputy Head of School

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

Department

Deakin Business School

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Deakin University, 2016
Bachelor of Commerce, Deakin University, 2008
Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, Deakin University, 2007
Master of Business Administration, Southern Cross University, 2001
Bachelor of Business (Administration), University of Jaffna, 1994

Contact

sutharson.kanapathippillai@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 924 46497

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.

Research 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

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=osGdZrYAAAAJ&hl=en

Awards

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.