Professor Julie Cotter BCom (Hons), PhD, Uni of QLD, FCPA, CA, GAICD School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Faculty of Business and Law University of Southern Queensland Telephone: (07) 4631 2916 Email: Julie.Cotter@usq.edu.au

Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development

In her role as Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development (ACSBD), Professor Julie Cotter complements the work of the Director and oversees essential consultation and communication within the university and with key research funding stakeholders. The ACSBD aims to accelerate the practice of sustainable business and development by building creative partnerships, applying expert knowledge, and providing high quality research.

Julie also leads one of the ACSBD’s four research clusters – Sustainable Governance, Finance and Accounting. Areas covered by this cluster include corporate sustainability reporting and accounting systems, governance for sustainable organisations, carbon mitigation and reporting, emissions trading schemes, multi stakeholder assessment of governance quality.

Research

Professor Cotter’s research interests relate to corporate reporting, standard setting and capital markets. Particular current interests include the disclosure of information about climate change risks and opportunities (carbon disclosure), sustainability reporting (Global Reporting Initiative), organisational governance quality, marginal abatement cost curves and carbon mitigation.

Publications and working papers

Research student projects

Current research grants

You can access some of Julie’s research papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=192275. Others can be accessed directly from the journals they are published in.

Board Memberships

Chair, Climate Disclosure Standards Board Regulatory Review Moderation Panel

Project Control Group, USQ Carbon Zero Project

Editorial Board, Accounting and Finance

Editorial Board, Accounting Research Journal

Editorial Board, Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting

Professional Body Memberships

Fellow, CPA Australia

Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia

The Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand

Australian Institute of Management

Teaching

Julie’s teaching interests fall in the areas of research methodology and financial accounting.