Associate Professor John Sands
BBus(Acc) GoldCoastU.C.Griff., DipAII AustInsurInst., BBus(Mkt) S.Qld, DipMktResearch MktResearchSocAust, MPhil Griff., PhD Griff., Certified Practising Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accounting (CMA), Fellow of Australian Institute of Management (FAIM), Professional National Accounting (NPA)
Position: Director of Faculty of Business Undergraduate Programs; Faculty of Business Learning and Teaching Coordinator; Associate Professor, Accounting
Office: K2.08
Tel: +61 7 5459 4462
Email: jsands@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Strategic Management Accounting
- Management Accounting
- Accounting for Managers
- Accounting Principles
- International and Contemporary Issues in Accounting
Research areas
- behavioural accounting aspects of auditing (auditor independence and auditor switching)
- contemporary and strategic management accounting issues (the impact of performance reporting systems design, managing stakeholders’ interests, and management behaviour on sustainable corporate performance)
- international accounting - Cross-cultural and comparative studies in financial, managerial accounting and education issues
- accounting education
- issues in accounting practice ethics
Student research projects
- supervision of a PhD dissertation that will investigate the impact of the balanced scorecard’s learning and growth perspective and information, data and redundant cue load on the association between multi-perspective performance reporting and corporate sustainability
- supervision of an Honours dissertation that will investigate issues surrounding the triple bottom line reporting function
Profile
Associate Professor John Sands has extensive academic and industry experience. Prior to his appointment as Program Leader, Accounting in January 2008, John was a senior lecturer at Griffith University. He held many committee and administrative positions during his 18 years with Griffith University, including Deputy Head of School of Accounting, Banking and Finance.
Before academia, John was employed in managerial positions in the banking, finance and insurance sector by multinational and private companies.
He has taught across a wide range of accounting topics since joining academia. His research has been broad, ranging from accounting education and ethics in accounting issues through to behavioural and international accounting issues. Research outcomes from these studies have been cited by various authors in refereed journals. Also, a conference paper that presented a structural equation model of the relationships between risk management, ethical environment, internal audit activity and accounting control procedural quality was awarded best paper (quantitative category) at an international conference in 2007.
Currently, John is investigating the relationship between successful management of stakeholders’ interests and corporate sustainability, which includes the use of social and environmental accounting (triple bottom line) within performance reporting.
Publications
Many of Associate Professor John Sands' publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
Research grants
- Centre for Organisational Governance and Performance (COGAP) Grants
- Focusing on corporate sustainability through managing stakeholders’ interest
- Investigators order of ranking: Chief investigators Prof. Lokman Mia; associate investigators Dr John Sands, Dr Lanita Winata, and Dr George Hooi
- Year: Grant 1 in 2006 for Stage 1 of research project and Grant 2 in 2007 for Stage 2 of research project
- Amount of grant: A$6,000 and A$6,000
- Host institution: Griffith University
- Granting agency: Griffith Business School
Griffith Business School Seeding Grant
- Focusing on educators' epistemological beliefs of accounting ethics education
- Investigator: Chief investigator John Sands
- Year: 2003
- Amount of grant: A$3,000
- Host institution: Griffith University
- Granting agency: Griffith Business School
School of Accounting, Banking and Finance Seeding Grant
- Focusing on students’ perceptions of accounting ethics education
- Investigators order of ranking: Chief investigator John Sands, associate investigator Prof. Chew Ng
- Year: 2002
- Amount of grant: A$3,000
- Host institution: Griffith University
- Granting agency: Department of Commerce and Management
School of Accounting, Banking and Finance Seeding Grant
- Focusing on effective outcomes that result from matching strategic goals and performance measurements
- Investigators order of ranking: Chief investigator John Sands, associate investigator Prof. Errol Iselin
- Year: 2001
- Amount of grant: A$3,000
- Host institution: Griffith University
- Granting agency: Department of Commerce and Management
Australian Research Council Small Grant
- Focusing on variables that influence the effectiveness of multidimensional strategic goals and performance reporting
- Investigators order of ranking: Chief investigators Prof. Errol Iselin, Prof. Lokman Mia, and Prof. Zahirul Hoque; associate investigator John Sands
- Year: 2000
- Amount of grant: A$15,000
- Host institution: Griffith University
- Granting agency: Department of Commerce and Management
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