Recently completed PhDs

School of Accounting and Commercial Law completions. All recent theses are available online via the Victoria University of Wellington library.

PhDs completed in 2024

Amy Cruickshank, ACCY
Government Financial Support for the Charitable Sector in New Zealand

Supervisors: Andrew Smith, Peer Skov and John Creedy.

Feras Alghamdi, ACCY
Earnings Quality Using the Long-Run Equilibrium Relation Between Income and Cash Flows

Supervisors: Roger Willett and Hang Pham.

PhD's completed in 2023

Mary Chukwujama, COML
Corporate Reporting on Modern Slavery in Global Supply Chains: Examining Nigeria's Cocoa Farms

Supervisors: Amanda Reilly; Jonathan Barrett.

Loan Nguyen, ACCY
Earnings Management and Default Risk

Supervisors: Tony van Zijl and Thu Phuong Truong.

Sashi Athota. TAXN
Insights into the low success rate of the Indian income tax department in litigation: A grounded theory approach

Supervisors: Lisa Marriott and Jonathan Barrett.

Su Li, ACCY
Equity Valuation and Climate Change

Supervisors: Tony van Zijl and Roger Willett.

Emmanuel Michael, ACCY
Mandatory Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Regulations: ESG Performance, Corporate Finance, and Investment

Supervisors: were Tony van Zijl, Roger Willett.

Chris Ball, ACCY
Extension to discrete choice models of Labour Supply

Supervisors: John Creedy; Norman Gemmell.

PhD's completed in 2022

Udam Prang, ACCY
Performance budgeting reform in Cambodia and its vale in the context of public higher education institutions

Supervisors: Carolyn Fowler, Thu Phuong Truong.

Bich Nguyen, ACCY
Pension Reforms in Viet Nam: Voices of Local Citizenry

Supervisors: Lisa Marriott; Carolyn Cordery; Rachel Baskerville.

Menaka Angammana, COML
Towards Implementing Board Gender Diversity in Sri Lanka

Supervisors: Trish Keeper; Matteo Solinas.

PhD's completed in 2021

Thuy Tran, ACCY
Accountability for  refugee resettlement in New Zealand

Supervisors: Rodney Dormer, Carolyn Fowler, and Rachel Baskerville.

Fatematuz Tamanna Ahmed, ACCY
Firm Performance, Financial Constraints, and Dual-Class share Structure

Supervisors: Tony van Zijl and Noor Houqe.

Ming Xiao Chan,  ACCY
The Politics of Accountability and Participation: A Case study of Samoa's Land Reform

Supervisors: Judy Brown and Pala Molisa.

Maqbool Quraishi, ACCY
The Politics and Struggle of Accountability: A Case Study of Bangladesh's Ready-Made Garment (RMG) Industry

Supervisors: Judy Brown and Trevor Hopper.

Elizabeth Mathenge, ACCY
Challenges for Responsible Investment in the retirement benefits sector of Kenya

Supervisors: Lisa Mariott and Jonathan Barrett

Jamy Mohaimen, ACCY
Value  Relevance of Integrated Reporting using a Novel Approach: Comparative Cross Country Evidence of Mandatory and Voluntary Implementers

Supervisors: Martien Lubberink and Ainul Islam.

Hanqiao Li, ACCY 
An Evaluation of Market Responses to Corporate Disclosures in a Continuous Disclosure Environment

Supervisors: Thu Phuong Truong and Trish Keeper.

PhD's completed in 2020

Arfian Zudana, ACCY
Auditor Provided Tax Services, Income Shifting, and Default Risk

Supervisors: Tony van Zijl and Balasingham Balachandran

Alastair Thomas, ACCY 
The Distributional Effects of Value-Added Taxes in OECD Countries

Supervisors: John Creedy and Norman Gemmell

Solomon Opare, ACCY 
Capital Market Effects of Adoption of IFRS

Supervisors: Tony van Zijl and Noor Houqe. Solomon was also a Victoria PhD Scholarship and R W Steele Scholarship holder.

Travis Christensen, ACCY 
Perceptions of Auditor Negligence: The Effects of Big Data Visualisations on Jurors' Decisions

Supervisors: Ian Eggleton and Jake Rose.

Vladimir Samoylov, COML
Protecting the Industrial Designs of Today and  the Future

Supervisors:  Susan Corbett and Jonathan Barrett.

PhD's completed in 2019

Yi Yang,  ACCY 
Shareholder activism, coroporate social responsibilty and financial performance

Supervisors: Binh Bui and Thu Phuong Truong

Dylan Hobbs, TAXN 
The Use of Land Value Taxation in New Zealand (1891 - 1991)

Supervisors: Lisa Marriott and Andrew Smith

PhD's completed in 2018

Ryan Kerr, ACCY 
The Impact of Private Securities Lawsuits On Accounting Conservatism and the Moderating Influence of Corporate Governance

Supervisors: Tony van Zijl and Thu Phuong Truong.

John van der Burg, ACCY 
Stochastic continuous-time cash flows: A coupled linear-quadratic model

Supervisors: Mark Tippett and Tony van zijl.

Olayinka Moses,  ACCY 
Effectiveness of Estrative Industries Transparency Initiative

Supervisors: Tony van Zijl and Dr Noor Houqe.  Yinka also won the prize for the best paper in his category at the 2018 African Accounting and Finance Association conference.

Mosammet Jahan, ACCY 
An Empirical Study on Multiple Corporate Directorships in New Zealand: A New Interpretation of Selected Governance Theories

Supervisors: Martien Lubberink and Professor Karen Van Peursem. Asma was also a Victoria PhD Scholarship holder.

PhD's completed in 2016

Arifatul Husna Mohd, ACCY 
The Impact of Intellectual Capital on Firm Performance Among R & D Engaging Firms

Supervisors: Tony van Zijl and Ainul Islam.