John Hoggett, BCom (Hons), BTh, MFM (Qld), AAUQ, FCPA, has taught accounting at several different universities in Western Australia and Queensland during his 40 years as an academic. He has taught introductory accounting, corporate accounting and accounting theory to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and written books and monographs for a variety of organisations including CPA Australia and the Group of 100. He was also involved in secondary accounting education for several years with the Curriculum Council of Western Australia.
Dr John Medlin, PhD (UniSA), BEc (Adelaide), MEc (UNE), CA, is a senior lecturer in the School of Commerce at the University of South Australia. John began his career with Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young) in the early 1980s. After a few years practical experience, John moved to accounting education where he has lectured in both fi nancial and management accounting, accounting theory, economics and business fi nance. From 1998 until 2010, John coordinated a general fi rst-year accounting subject with an enrolment in excess of 1000 students each year, 80% of whom were non-accounting majors. Since 2010, John has coordinated a second-year fi nancial accounting subject. He has been recognised with teaching awards from the University of South Australia. His research interest is in the area of accounting education in which he has presented conference papers and been published.
Lew Edwards is Emeritus Professor of the School of Accounting, Queensland University of Technology. Lew’s career includes over 25 years teaching fi nancial and managerial accounting to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He was Head of School (Department) of Accountancy for 18 years. He is a both a chartered accountant and a CPA, and served for many years on education and technical standards committees (both state and national) of the professional accounting bodies. He has also served as a consultant to accounting fi rms, industry and government at both national and international levels. Lew is co-author (with John Hoggett) of the best selling Australian accounting textsFinancial Accounting in Australia and Accounting in Australia. He has also published (as author and co-author) a wide range of manual and computerised accounting practice sets.
Matthew Tilling, BCom (Flinders), is a senior lecturer in Accounting at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He has taught a range of accounting topics to both undergraduates and postgraduates in over a decade of university teaching, with a primary focus on issues affecting large corporations. This academic focus has been complemented with the provision of extensive consulting and training services to numerous professional and corporate entities on a wide range of current accounting problems. He has also been involved with syllabus and exam design for high school accounting in Western Australia. Matthew has published articles on accounting education and social and environmental accounting in a range of international journals.
Evelyn Hogg, BCom, BAcc, CA, CA (SA), ACMA, is a senior lecturer in fi nancial accounting and managerial accounting at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. She is a chartered accountant and a chartered management accountant. She has over 25 years of university teaching, commercial training and consulting experience in accounting and assurance services locally and overseas. She has a keen interest in the development of accounting education and training in secondary, tertiary and commercial environments.
