David Lont
Professor of Accounting and Finance, University of Otago

Professor David Lont joined the College of Otago in 1989 and has taught accounting principle, very first year accounting, money reporting and evaluation and a range of post graduate investigate papers.

He is a fellow of the Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand and served as a committee member for the Otago Department (2003-2011), on the Institute’s publications committee from 2006–2010 and the Institutes Corporate Once-a-year Report Awards (2003-2011). He also served on the PhD Scholarship committee from 2008-2014, chairing this from 2012. He is also a fellow of CPA Australia and has won a highly aggressive CPA International Study Perspectives grant. He was a panel member on the Efficiency-Dependent Investigate Fund (PBRF) 2018 Quality Evaluation exercise.

In 2014, he was provided the honorary title of senior scholar in Administration at the College of California, Davis just after a extended affiliation with their Graduate School of Administration and he was created a fellow of ANU’s ANCAAR in 2017 for his contribution to audit study and emerging students.

His present-day research pursuits are mainly in funds marketplaces, and the economics of fiscal reporting and auditing. He has introduced papers at a amount of large profile conferences which include the American Accounting Affiliation nationwide meeting, Accounting and Finance Affiliation of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) yearly convention, European Accounting Association, and plenary classes at Journal of Present-day Accounting and Economics yearly convention (2004), (2008) and (2011), (2018) and ANCAAR (2012).

He has published papers in leading journals which include Accounting and Finance (profitable the Peter Brownell prize for best paper in 2010, and runner-up prize in 2009 and 2011). He has also revealed in Abacus, Accounting Discussion board, Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, Auditing, A Journal of Apply and Idea, Modern Accounting Analysis, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Instruction, and Pacific Accounting Evaluate.

He is an associate editor for Abacus, and Accounting and Finance, and on the editorial board of Intercontinental Journal of Auditing (all A rated on the ABDC record), and Pacific Accounting Review (PAR) (B rated) and is also a single of its trustee. He has reviewed posts for a amount of major journals including Abacus, Accounting Training, Accounting and Finance, Accounting Horizons, Auditing, A Journal of Practice and Concept, British Accounting Evaluate, Modern day Accounting Investigation, Pacific Accounting Evaluate, and Assessment of Accounting Experiments and The Accounting Assessment. He chaired the technical committee for money accounting papers for AFAANZ yearly convention from 2006-2009. He was elected as a director of AFAANZ in 2008 and was the New Zealand President from 2011-2014.
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