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Peter Eddey

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Name: Peter Eddey

Personal Title: Emeritus Professor

Position: Director of the Graduate Studies Office

Organisational Unit: Faculty of Business and Economics

Qualifications: BCom (Hons) NSW, MCom (Hons) NSW, FCA, FCPA

Telephone: +61 (0)2 9850-8523

Fax: +61 (0)2 9850-9956

Email: peter.eddey@mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 215

Profile

Peter Eddey is Director of the Graduate Studies Office in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Macquarie University. He is an honours graduate from the University of New South Wales with over 35 years of academic experience. Peter is a fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants and CPA Australia. As an academic, Peter has published books and monographs as well as research papers in national and international journals, mainly in the areas of financial accounting, corporate accounting, mergers and acquisitions. Peter's teaching interests have been in the areas of corporate accounting and financial statement analysis, principally at postgraduate level. Peter has also been a consultant to public accounting firms, corporations and government bodies.

In recent years Peter has taken on an academic management role and become involved in the design, development and strategic management of postgraduate business programs, such as the Master of International Business and the Master of Commerce programs at Macquarie University. Peter has sought to develop programs that are flexible, have an international perspective and curriculum, are practice based and have a teaching faculty that includes practicing professionals along with Macquarie's academic staff. Peter and his GSO staff greatly enjoy working with Australian and international students and helping them gain the knowledge and skills necessary for a productive career in a global business environment.

Previous Teaching

ACCG310 Corporate Accounting and Reporting (1977- 1994)

ACCG871 Advanced Corporate Accounting (1981- 1998)

ACCG832 Financial Statement Analysis (1997- 2000)

Publications

Peter Eddey - Publications

  • Graduate Business Education: Profiling Successful Students and its Relevance for Marketing and Recruitment Policy, Journal of Education for Business, 2009, January/February, pp 160-167 (with Chris Baumann).
  • Accounting for Corporate Combinations and Associations, Sydney: Prentice-Hall/Pearson Education, fifth edition, 2001, pp ix-622 (with Jeff Knapp and Neal Arthur).
  • The Management of Earnings to Support Directors' Recommendations on Takeover Bids, Abacus, Vol. 35, No. 1,1999, pp. 29-45 (with Stephen Taylor).
  • The Relevance of Asset Revaluations Over An Economic Cycle, Australian Accounting Review, May 1997, pp. 22-30 (with Peter Easton).
  • What Motivates Going Private?: An Analysis of Australian Firms, Accounting and Finance, May 1996, pp. 31-50 (with Stephen Taylor and Kin Wai Lee).
  • An Investigation of Revaluations of Tangible Long-Lived Assets, Journal of Accounting Research, Supplement 1993, pp. 1-37 (with Peter Easton and Trevor Harris).
  • Independent Expert's Reports in Takeover Bids, Accounting and Finance, May 1993, pp. 1-18.
  • Corporate Raiders and Takeover Targets, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Volume 18, No.2, January 1991, pp 151-171.
  • Directors' Recommendations in Response to Takeover Bids: Do They Act In Their Own Interests?, Australian Journal of Management, June 1989, pp 1-28 (with Roger Casey).
  • Defensive Strategies of Listed Companies Under the Takeover Code, Australian Journal of Management, December 1986, pp. 153-172 (with Roger Casey).
  • A Capital Maintenance Approach to Income Determination, Issues in Accounting Education, Spring 1986, pp. 112-122 (with Robert Coombes).
  • Accounting for Interests in Joint Arrangements, Discussion Paper No. 9, Australian Accounting Research Foundation, December 1985, pp. 1-78.
  • Accounting Policies for Exchange Gains and Losses on Long-Term Monetary Items, Accounting and Finance, November 1985, pp. 19-40.
  • Accounting for Investments in Unincorporated Joint Ventures, Accounting and Finance, May 1980, pp. 1-20 (with Graham Sullivan).