School of Accountancy

Research & Teaching Areas
- Auditing & Corporate Governance
- Financial Performance Analysis & Bankruptcy Prediction
- Corporate Social Responsibility

Recent Consulting
- KPMG
- ABN AMRO
- Development Bank of Singapore

Academic Positions
- Florida International University
- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Griffith University, Australia
- University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Bond University, Australia
- University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Professional Experience, Leadership & Service
- KPMG
- The International Journal of Accounting – editorial board
- Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences – editorial board
- Accounting Education: an international journal – editorial board
- Assurance of Learning – Master of Accounting

Representative Publications

Holder-Webb, L. and Sharma, D. S. (2010) “The Effect of Governance on Credit Decisions and Perceptions of Reporting Reliability”, Behavioral Research in Accounting, 22 (1), pp. 1-20. Lead Article.

Naiker, V., and Sharma, D. S. (2009) “Former CPA Partners on the Audit Committee and Internal Control Deficiencies”, The Accounting Review, March, pp. 559-587.

Sharma, D. S., Boo, E. and Sharma, V. D. (2008) “The Impact of Non-Mandatory Corporate Governance on Auditors’ Client Acceptance, Risk and Planning Judgments”, Accounting & Business Research, June, pp. 1-28. Lead Article.