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The Institute announces the recipients of its 2012 Academic Research Grants Program

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (the Institute) is pleased to announce that it would be supporting 12 research projects from nine universities as part of its 2012 Academic Research Grants Program.

The Institute’s head of academic relations, Professor James Guthrie, explains, "The aim of the Program is to provide initial funding to assist academics or professionals to get an accounting research project up and running. The research grants are particularly useful in helping those scholars who don’t have access to traditional large scale funding sources."

This year, grants were awarded to academics at Charles Sturt, University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney, La Trobe University, Griffith University, Griffith Business School, University of South Australia, Monash University and University of Southern Queensland.

Projects selected for funding will focus on:

• Improving the uptake of accounting as a career choice
• Review of taxation of sovereign wealth funds
• Corporate Accountability for Human Rights
• Measuring Tax-Aware Investing in Public Offer Super Funds
• Challenges and resources needs for small accounting practices in Australia
• Changes in corporate stewardship legislation
• Self-managed superannuation funds
• Integrated reporting by Australian organisations
• Sustainability and integrated reporting: inhibitors and enablers
• Making the cap fit: auditing and post-crisis management
• Scaffolding the development of judgment skills in accounting programs
• Transdisciplinarity of accounting: the case of accounting for water.

Prof. Guthrie added, "It is pleasing to see such a diverse range of topics selected for funding. This is a strong indicator of the depth of interest in accounting research amongst academics and professionals in Australia.

"The 2012 academic research program is part of the Institute’s ongoing commitment to collaborate more closely with academia. The program is also important for helping produce quality, relevant research that will benefit the accounting profession and society."

Article last Updated 7 February 2012