Dr Peter Baxter
BBus(Hons) S.Qld., MCom S.Qld., PhD S.Qld.
Position: Senior Lecturer, Accounting
Office: K1.23
Tel: +61 7 5430 2871
Email: pbaxter@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Financial Accounting
- Auditing and Professional Practice
- Contemporary Accounting Issues
- Company Accounting
Research areas
- Audit committees
- Corporate governance
- Financial reporting quality
- Earnings management
- Accounting education
Profile
Peter Baxter has over 13 years experience in teaching a wide range of accounting courses at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Central Queensland University and the University of Southern Queensland. Peter has also worked in the audit division of Coopers and Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers). He is a member of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ).
Peter graduated with his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2007. His dissertation examined the relationship between audit committees and financial reporting quality for a sample of Australian publicly listed companies. To assist in the completion of his dissertation, Peter was awarded an AFAANZ/CPA Australia/ICAA PhD Scholarship in 2006.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Dr Peter Baxter are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
Research grant
| Year |
Amount |
Investigators |
Topic and funding body |
Project focus |
| 2007-2008 |
A$4,300 |
Dr Peter Baxter and Associate Professor Marie Kavanagh (USQ) |
“A survey of first year university students’ current perceptions of accounting”
University of the Sunshine Coast - Internal Seed Grant |
The major aims of this project are to identify: the current perceptions of accounting by first year university students; the factors associated with these perceptions; and the factors affecting the choice of an accounting major. |
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