Visitors 2002
Date: 16 April - 31 May
Professor Michael Bradbury, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand
Financial instruments relating to his work on the Joint Working Group of Standard Setters. He has made several contributions so far to this field, including identification and testing of theoretical reasons as to why accounting firms use derivative financial instruments, and his development of professional articles on the use of fair-value accounting for financial instruments.
Date: 16 April - 31 May
Professor Rajendra Srivastava, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand
Continuous and on-line auditing; information quality; decision-making under uncertainty; belief functions applications to auditing; expert systems in auditing; theoretical study of internal control systems (design and analysis); statistical sampling; currently involved in XBRL - Extensible Business Reporting Language for e-commerce.
Date: 24 July - 9 August
Dr Andrew Lymer, Senior Lecturer, Department of Accounting and Finance, Birmingham Business, School, UK.
Taxation (international taxation and taxation of e-business); applied business computing, (in particular the impacts of the Internet and e-commerce on organisations, particularly corporate reporting, and the use and potential of artificial intelligence in commercial environments); accounting education.
Date: 2 October - 12 November
Professor Alfred Wagenhofer, Institute of Management Accounting & Control, Karl-Franzens-Universitaet, Graz, Austria
Financial and management accounting; international accounting.