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Hector Perera

Hector_PereraFormal Name: Hector Perera

Personal Title: Dr

Position: Emeritus Professor

Organisational Unit: Department of Accounting and Finance

Qualifications: PhD in Accounting (Sydney); BCom. (Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)

Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-4762

Fax: (+61-2) 9850-8497

Email: hector.perera@mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 208

Websites:

Profile

Hector is a graduate of the undergraduate programme at the University of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Peradeniya, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney. His research focus is mainly in the area of international accounting. He is the author/co-author of three books and more than 25 articles in numerous academic journals. He is on the editorial boards of four academic journals. He has been a reviewer for over 15 academic accounting journals. He served as chair of the International Relations Committee of the AAA International Accounting Section for 2002 and 2003. In a study of the international accounting research publications in 30 U.S. academic journals from 1980 to 1996, he was ranked fourth equal in a list of 58 frequently published authors from around the world.

In 2006, he served as a member of the Business and Economics Panel of the Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) round conducted by New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission (TEC), which involved the assessment of the research portfolios of accounting and finance academics of tertiary education institutions in New Zealand.

Teaching Areas

Current

  • ACCG 859 Current Issues in Accounting

Other

  • International Accounting;
  • Accounting Theory;
  • Integrative Accounting.

Visiting Positions

Visiting Professor:

  • Graduate School of International Social Science, Faculty of Business Administration, Yokohama National University, Japan February-March, 2004)
  • Department of Business Administration, Abo Akademi University, Finland (March-September, 2004)
  • Faculty of Business, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia (April - July 1997)
  • Department of Accounting and Finance, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland (January - April 1997)
  • Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Wollongong, Australia (July - December 1996)

Visiting Fellow:

  • University of New South Wales, Australia (September 1985 - January 1986) 
  • Leverhulme Commonwealth/U.S.A. Post-doctoral Fellow 1984/85, University of Glasgow, U.K. (January 1985 - August 1985).

Research

Current Research Interests

  • the impact of culture on business, management and accounting;
  • globalisation of markets and implications for accounting;
  • accounting and corporate governance;
  • accounting regulation;
  • accounting education;
  • state/profession relationship;
  • international transfer of accounting technology;
  • methodological issues in accounting.

Postgraduate Supervision

PhDs Theses Completed

  • Supervised seven successfully completed PhD research projects at Massey University (Chief Supervisor for six).

External Examiner for PhD Thesis

  • External examiner for 17 PhD theses from Universities in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden (as at February 2007).