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James Hazelton

James_Hazelton

Formal Name: James Hazelton 

Personal Title : Mr

Position: Senior Lecturer

Organisational Unit: Department of Accounting and Finance

Qualifications: BEc(Hons) Macquarie, PGDip Env. Studies Macquarie, CA

Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8486

Fax: (+61-2) 9850-8497

Email: jhazelto@efs.mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 239

Teaching

  • ACCG 260 - Accounting and Reporting for the Environment
  • ACCG 340 - Auditing and Assurance Services
  • ACCG 848 – Business and Professional Ethics
  • PHIL 264/364 - Business and Professional Ethics

Grants

External

Water Accounting (2008-10): Funds received from the Water Accounting Standards Board (formerly the Water Accounting Development Committee) in respect of research undertaken by Mr. Edward Tello (PhD candidate) and I. This project utilises financial accounting principles and practices to report on Australian water resources, an approach unique to Australia. There are a number of areas to the project. Standards development has been undertaken by a team including the WADC, academics and consultants. Our primary role has been to visit various pilot sites who are working to implement the standard. We have visited sites in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory and have developed issues papers for consideration by the Water Accounting Standards Board.

Sustainability education (2003-4): Funds received from Environment Australia to participate in an action research project to incorporate sustainability into accounting education. This project involved both embedding sustainability within an existing unit as well as incorporating sustainability principles within a new unit. The project was facilitated by the Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability, based at the Graduate School of the Environment at Macquarie University.

Internal

Ethics education (2009-10): Funds received from a University Priority grant (investigators are A/Prof. Maria Dyball, A/Prof. Sue Wright and I) for developing ethics education within the accounting curriculum. An important aspect of the project is to address the issue of orientating ethics education so as to encompass non-western ethical perspectives which are typically ignored in current accounting texts and accompanying pedagogy.

Social and Critical Research (2007-8): Funds received from a Macquarie University Strategic Support for Research Strengths grant to assist the Social and Critical Research in Accounting and Accountability Group. Various activities were supported, including data collection and a visit by an international Scholar in 2009.

Publications

Forthcoming

  • Hazelton, J. and M. Haigh Sustainability Curriculum in Accounting Education: Possibilities in Action Research Accounting Education: An International Journal
  • Hazelton, J. Adam, Inc., (poem) Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

2009

  • Hazelton, J. Philosophies of Business, Society and Environment, Ch. 2 in Business Management and Environmental Stewardship, R. Staib (Ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009.
  • Tello Melendez, E. and J. Hazelton Standardised Water Accounting in Australia, conference paper presented at the 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, December 2009
  • Hazelton, J. Water Use Accountability for Australian Corporations, presented at the 21st CSEAR International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, University of St Andrews, Scotland, September 2009
  • Hazeton, J. and Tello Melendez, E. The Users of General Purpose Water Accounting Reports, Discussion paper prepared for the Water Accounting Standards Board, November 2009
  • Hazeton, J. and Tello Melendez, E. The Temporal Classification of Water Assets and Liabilities, Discussion paper prepared for the Water Accounting Standards Board, February 2009
  • Hazeton, J. and Tello Melendez, E. Water Accounting – Frequently Asked Questions, Resource document prepared for the Water Accounting Standards Board, April 2009

2008

  • Hazelton J. Water Labelling – Imperative or impossible? Irrigation Australia, August 2008, pp. 12-13
  • Hazelton J. Options for Australian Corporate Water Reporting,  4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environmental Research, Adelaide, April 2008
  • Dilernia, C. and J. Hazelton Accounting, accountability and money - implications of Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money for the social and environmental accounting project  2008 Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, New York, USA, April 2008  
  • Leong S., and J. Hazelton The Case of Mandatory Reporting of Corporate Political Donations: Lessons from an Alternative Reporting Model for the TBL Debate 2008 Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, New York, USA, April 2008
  • Leong, S., J. Hazelton and C. Townley Submission to Select Committee on Electoral and Political Party Funding February 2008
  • Tello Melendez, E. and J. Hazelton Submission to Select Committee on Electoral and Political Party Funding February 2008

2007

  • Hazelton J. Water Reporting by Australian Corporations: Past practices and future possibilities 6th Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, Sydney, December 2007
  • Leong S., J. Hazelton and C. Townley The Moral Status of Corporate Political Donations and the Impact of Disclosure 6th Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, Sydney, December 2007
  • Melendez, E. T. and J. Hazelton Corporate Political Donations in Australia: Frequency, Location and Motivation of Voluntary Disclosures 6th Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, Sydney, December 2007
  • Hazelton, J Catching the G3 Wave: Would increased compliance with GRI water-related disclosures improve Australian water sustainability? 5th Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2007
  •  Dilernia, C. and J. Hazelton What insights does Georg Simmel's The Philosophy of Money (1907) Offer to contemporary accounting? 5th Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2007

2006

  • Hazelton, J. Four Ways to Tame the Corporation Fifth Conference of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, Wellington, New Zealand, November 2006
  • Hazelton, J. Submission to Corporations and Markets Advisory Commission inquiry into corporate social responsibility, February 2006

2005

  • Hazelton, J. and K. Cussen. The Amorality of Public Corporations, Essays in Philosophy, Vol 6 (2), June 2005  
  • Hazelton, J. and M. Haigh Incorporating Sustainability into Accounting Education,  Fourth Conference on Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship, Oxford, UK, July 2005     
  • Hazelton, J. Submission to Australian Senate Inquiry into Corporate Responsibility, September 2005
  • Hazelton, J. The Case of Discount Department Stores in Gay, G. and R. Simnett, Auditing Case Studies, October 2005

2004

  • Haigh, M. & Hazelton, J. Financial markets: a tool for social responsibility? Journal of Business Ethics, Vol 52(1), pp. 59-71, June 2004
  • Hazelton, J. Who is Accountable for the Triple Bottom Line? 15th International Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research (3rd Australasian CSEAR Conference), Sydney, April 2004.
  • Hazelton, J. Submission to Global Reporting Initiative Framework for Public Sector Reporting, November 2004

Service

  • Chair, Faculty Sustainability Committee
  • Faculty representative, University Sustainability Working Group
  • Faculty representative, Postgraduate Curriculum Review Committee