School of Business
Staff Profile
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Mr Venkat Narayanan
Title: Lecturer
Department: Accounting
Location: Social Sciences Building Room 106
Tel: +61 3 9479 2709
Email: v.narayanan@latrobe.edu.au
Fax: +61 3 9479 2356 |
B Com-Accounting (Hons) Macquarie University
Research Interests
Current research interests are in the area of management control systems in organisational change towards social and environmental sustainability. Past research has been in areas of accounting education and management control of outsourcing.
I am currently working on my PhD thesis in the area of management control systems and organisational change towards sustainability. This is a topical and emerging area with important implications for the management accounting and sustainability literatures as well as practitioner in terms of managing organisational change in the context of implementing sustainability concerns into their business operations.
Teaching Profile
Current teaching
At present I teach a second year level management accounting unit covering such topics as budgeting, capital expenditures, cost management and performance measurement and evaluation.
Previous Teaching
I have taught advanced management accounting as well as introductory management accounting at third and second year level respectively. I have also taught introductory financial accounting at first year level.
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
“An analysis of students’ perceptions of a workshop (cooperative learning) based approach to tutorials”, with Baird, K. M., Australian Journal of Accounting Education (2005), Vol 1, No. 1. pp73-87.
Forthcoming:
“The interplay between accountability and management control patterns in public sector outsourcing”, with Harrison, G. L., and Schoch, H., International Journal of Business Studies
Book Chapter
“The ‘standardization’ of sustainability reporting” with Adams, C. A., (2007) in Unerman, J., Bebbington, J., and O’Dwyer, B., Sustainability Accounting and Accountability, Routledge, London.
Conference Presentations
Narayanan, V., and Chand, P. “Success of the Sustainability Reporting Standards and Organisational Culture: An Australian Case Study. Third International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Chennai, India 2007
Narayanan, V., Schoch, H.P. and Harrison G. L., “Management control patterns in an outsourcing context: a case based approach”. APIRA Conference, Singapore 2004
Seminar Presentations
Baird, K., and Narayanan, V. “The effect of a change in teaching structure on student performance”, La Trobe University, Department of Accounting, Seminar Series, 22nd May 2008
Narayanan, V., Schoch, H.P. and Harrison G. L., “Management control patterns in an outsourcing context: a case based approach”. Macquarie University, Department of Accounting and Finance, Seminar Series, 17 October 2003.
Narayanan, V., Schoch, H.P. and Harrison G. L., “Management control patterns in an outsourcing context: a case based approach” Charles Sturt University (Wagga Wagga), School of Financial Studies, Seminar Series, 24 March 2004.
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