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The University of Auckland Guide to Theses and Dissertations
This document is a general guide to the presentation and submission of theses and dissertations and contains additional information about related policies and procedures. Your department may also have their own guidelines and requirements so you must consult your supervisor from the outset.
The latest guide is available from the University of Auckland's Theses and dissertations website.
Accounting and Finance dissertations and theses
2023
| Student name |
Title |
Supervisor |
|---|
| Jane Qin |
Stakeholder Pressures and Corporate Practice of Environmental Responsibility: Evidence of Corporate Environmental Reporting and Investment in China |
- Dr Julie Harrison
- Dr Lily Chen
|
| Jun Ma |
Mutual Fund Herding, Customer Satisfaction and Firm Risk |
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2022
| Student name |
Title |
Supervisor |
|---|
| Murong Cui |
A Conceptual Foundation for Financial DEA |
- AP Julie Harrison
- Dr Fredrick Ng
|
| Chi Quynh Nguyen |
Household financial decisions over the life-cycle |
- Prof Dimitris Margaritis
- Dr Helen Lu
- Dr Joelle Fong
|
| Low Pei Lin (Grace) |
Corporate Social Responsibility of Banks: Firm value and bank risks |
- Prof Charl de Villiers
- Dr Michelle Li
|
| Yen Hung Shih |
Foreign Business Engagement by New Zealand Firms With China: Governance Structures, Management Controls and Growth
|
- Emeritus Prof Barry Spicer
- Prof Norman Wong
|
Char-Le
Wang |
Agriculture Cooperatives and the Theory of the Firm: Case Studies of New Zealand and Chinese Dairy Industries |
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2020
| Student name |
Title |
Supervisor |
|---|
| Ha Nguyen |
CEO Compensation, Board Diversity, Innovation, and Firm Risk |
|
| Citra Amanda |
Essays on Bank Spatial Competition, Stability and Resolution |
|
| Nishaal Prasad |
Exploration of the effectiveness of internal audit function in New Zealand |
|
| Isabella Li |
The Role of Boundary Objects in Management Control System Change: a Longitudinal Study of an Implementation of Casemix in Healthcare |
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2018
| Student name |
Title |
Supervisor |
|---|
| Wanyi Yang |
The Value of Analyst Recommendations: An International Perspective |
|
| Lina Li |
When Big 4 Dominance is Broken: The Effect of Audit Industry Structure Change on Auditor Economic Behavior – Evidence from China |
|
| Caroline Bridges |
What is the purpose and value of Integrated Reporting? |
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2017
| Student name |
Title |
Supervisor |
|---|
| Ramona Zharfpeykan |
Sustainability reporting, disclosure and performance: An evaluation using triangulation of data and methods |
|
2016
| Student name |
Title |
Supervisor(s) |
|---|
| Faisal Abdulmohsen Alqahtani |
Islamic Banking and the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Gulf Cooperation Council |
|
| Marco Eugster |
Investor Decision Making
|
- Professor Henk Berkman
- Associate Professor Alastair Marsden
|
| Tze Yuan (David) Lau |
The Effect of Earnings Management Constraints on Management Earnings Forecasts: Evidence from Japan |
- Professor Norman Wong
- Professor Steven Cahan
|
| Bee Wah (Grace) Ooi |
Mandatory Changes in Financial Reporting and Market Efficiency in an Emerging Market (Empirical Evidence from Malaysia) |
- Professor David Mayes
- Professor Dan Dhaliwal
|
| Omid Sherkat |
A Multi-Stakeholder Framework for Performance Management of Community Health Services Contractors |
- Professor Paul Rouse
- Dr Winnie O'Grady
|
| Alan Richard Toy |
Privacy Audits: Expectations and Implementation
|
- Professor David Hay
- Associate Professor Gehan Gunasekara
|
2015
| Student name |
Title |
Supervisor(s) |
|---|
| Mariela Carvajal Gallardo |
The Effect of the US-Chile Free Trade Agreement on the Earnings Quality of Chilean Firms |
- Professor Steven Cahan
- Associate Professor Nick Nguyen
|
| Yu Lu |
The Individual Characteristics of Board Members and Reported Internal Control Weakness: Evidence from China |
- Professor David Hay
- Dr Chen Chen
|
| Angela Thien Fui Liew |
Using Information Technology to Enforce Management Controls in New Product Development Processes: Fishing for Innovative New Products |
- Professor Ananth Srinivasan
- Professor Steve Sutton
|
| Moritz Wagner |
Essays on Mutual Funds |
- Professor Dimitris Margaritis
- Dr John Byong-Tek Lee
|
2014
| Student name |
Title |
Supervisor(s) |
|---|
| Paul Geert Geertsema |
Financial Contagion and Risk Management |
- Professor Henk Berkman
- Professor Dimitri Margaritis
|
| Jingwen Mu |
Firms' Choices to Cross-list Stocks on the U.S. and the U.K. Markets: An Earnings Quality Perspective |
- Professor David Emanuel
- Professor Vic Naiker
- Dr Li (Lily) Chen
|
2013
| Student name |
Title |
Supervisor(s) |
|---|
| Mathew Puravady Abraham |
Dividend Reinvestment Plans: Evidence from Australian Market |
- Associate Professor Alastair Marsden
- Associate Professor Russell Poskitt
|
| Giannoula Karamichailidou |
The impact of the 2008 short-selling regulations on European Financial Stocks |
- Associate Professor Russell Poskitt
- Associate Professor Alastair Marsden
|
| Frederick Chang Yu Ng |
Revenue Management in Small Businesses and Micro-Enterprises |
- Associate Professor Paul Rouse
- Dr Julie Harrison
|
2012
| Student name |
Title |
Supervisor(s) |
|---|
| Bakhtiar Alrazi |
The Quality and the Determinants of Environmental Reporting of Electricity Generating Companies: An International Comparison |
- Professor Charl de Villiers
- Professor Chris van Staden
|
| Jasmine Sze Ting Kwong |
The Association between Industry, Regional City Specialization and the Audit Fee Premium/Discount: Evidence from Hong Kong SAR, China |
- Professor David Hay
- Richard Petty
|
| Rong Gong |
The Impact of the 2007 Reforms on the Information Environment in the Chinese A-share Market |
- Associate Professor Alastair Marsden
- Associate Professor Russell Poskitt
|
| Li Chen |
Financial Analysts’ Underreaction and Reputation-Building Incentives |
- Professor Steven Cahan
- Professor Philip Shane
|
| Shayuti Mohamed Adnan |
Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Reporting: evidence from China, Malaysia and United Kingdom |
- Professor Chris van Staden
- Professor David Hay
|
| Sharlene Sheetal Narayan |
An Empirical Study of the Influence of Formalized Management Control Systems on the Use of Open Innovation Practices |
- Dr Chris Akroyd
- Professor Norio Sawabe
- Professor Henry Chesbrough
- Professor Hugh Whittaker
|