Graham Peirson,
Monash University Rob Brown,
University of Melbourne Steve Easton,
University of Newcastle Peter Howard,
Monash University Sean Pinder,
University of Melbourne
Graham Peirson is Professor of Accounting and Finance and Director of the Centre for Research in Accounting and Finance at Monash University (Clayton Campus). He is a member of the Australian Accounting Standards Board. He is co-author of Accounting: An Introduction, Financial Accounting: An Introduction, Issues in Financial Accounting and Financial Accounting Theory. A graduate of Adelaide University, he has taught at Adelaide University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Illinois; the University of Florida; and the University of Washington.
Rob Brown is Professor of Finance and head of the Department of Finance at The University of Melbourne. He is co-author of Financial Accounting Theory (2nd edition) and has published papers in many research journals including The Journal of Banking and Finance, The Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Economica and The Australian Journal of Management. He is a former associate director (finance) of Accounting and Finance, the research journal of the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand. He has taught at the University of Sydney, Lancaster University and Monash University and on short courses for a range of clients including BHP/Billiton, Australia Post and the National Australia Bank. His current research interests are derivative securities and banking.
Steve Easton is Professor of Finance at the University of Newcastle where he has served as Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce. He has undertaken research into the impact of accounting data on security market behaviour and on the market for corporate control. His recent research activity has included studies of the pricing of derivative securities. His work has been accepted for publication in a wide range of journals including The Journal of Futures Markets, Economica and The Journal of Banking and Finance. He has taught at the University of Adelaide, Lancaster University and Monash University. He has also provided short courses for a range of private and public sector organisations, including Australia Post, Macquarie Generation, State Forests of New South Wales and the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Peter Howard is Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Monash University (Clayton Campus). For eight years he worked as an engineer in the petrochemical and mining industries. He has extensive experience in project evaluation and operations planning as well as staff training courses. He has published in academic and professional journals on lease evaluation and the effects of imputation on dividend and financing decisions. He has extensive teaching experience at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. His current research interests include capital structure and dividend policy, particularly in the context of the imputation tax system.
Sean Pinder is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Melbourne. Prior to taking up his position in 2001, he lectured at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the Department of Finance and Accounting at University of Newcastle and prior to that at Monash University. Sean has also taught at the postgraduate level at Lancaster University in England and has undertaken a range of consulting activities for firms operating in both the domestic and international marketplace. He has developed and delivered professional short courses for major Australian and overseas companies and has been actively involved in the design and establishment of online assessment tools in the Finance discipline at the University of Melbourne. Sean's doctoral thesis involved the examination of pricing issues relating to derivative securities traded in Australia and he has developed a research profile with his work appearing in leading Australian and international journals.
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McGraw-Hill Australia