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Mr Chris Kandunias

  • Senior Lecturer in Accounting School of Commerce
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About me

Mr Chris Kandunias

Chris Kandunias is a Senior Lecturer in the Accounting Discipline. He has extensive experience in a variety of areas in Accounting but now specialises in delivering Auditing in all modes for the University. He is co-ordinator for the undergraduate Auditing courses delivered onshore, through Open University Australia (OUA) and with international academic partners (HKBU).

Chris is the curriculum leader for Open University and deals with queries from students relating to their academic experience and clarification of any technical queries related to the OUA Program. Chris has worked for UniSA since 1998 and has been involved with OUA since 2002.

Chris is currently completing a PhD focusing on the assessment of the financial viability of... Read more

School of Commerce

Offering accredited programs designed with industry in the disciplines of Accounting, Economics, Finance and Property.

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About me

Chris Kandunias is a Senior Lecturer in the Accounting Discipline. He has extensive experience in a variety of areas in Accounting but now specialises in delivering Auditing in all modes for the University. He is co-ordinator for the undergraduate Auditing courses delivered onshore, through Open University Australia (OUA) and with international academic partners (HKBU).

Chris is the curriculum leader for Open University and deals with queries from students relating to their academic experience and clarification of any technical queries related to the OUA Program. Chris has worked for UniSA since 1998 and has been involved with OUA since 2002.

Chris is currently completing a PhD focusing on the assessment of the financial viability of Australian Rules Football Clubs and the importance of considering information other than financial when assessing the ability of an AFL club to continue to operate within the requirements of the business world. He has published in a variety of areas including education, supply chain management and franchising.

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Experience

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (In Progress) University of South Australia

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) The University of Adelaide

  • Bachelor of Economics The University of Adelaide

Work history

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer School of Commerce University of South Australia 1998-2016

Tutor/Lecturer in the School of Commerce Flinders University of South Australia 1991-2001

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Research

Research themes

  • Transforming societies

Research focus

  • Accounting
  • Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
  • Assessment of the Performance of Major Sporting Organisations - Specifically
  • Curriculum and Pedagogy
  • Earnings Management Practices of Sporting Bodies in Both Australia and Overseas

Highlights

Assessment of the financial performance of Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL),Sports financial management.,Identification of social intangibles and their impact on the decision making of stakeholders of major sporting organisations.,Education and social media.

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Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.

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Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit Scopus

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Journal Articles

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2014

Stone, G, Fiedler, B & Kandunias, C 2014, 'Harnessing Facebook for Student Engagement in Accounting Education: Guiding Principles for Accounting Students and Educators', Accounting Education: an international journal, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 295-321.

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Other outputs

Kandunias, C. ‘Assessing the Viability of Australian Football Clubs as Going Concerns from 1980-2010: Towards a Sustainable Reporting Model’ 7th Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference, Kobe, Japan, July 2013Kandunias, C. The Impact of the 1985 VFL Task Force and its Role in Driving the Creation of a National Football Competition in Australia, "Worlds of Football II Conference", Melbourne, November, 2012.

Heng M, Fiedler BA and Kandunias C, 2005 'Implications of Supply Chain Management for Accounting Information Systems', Ninth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2005 )pp1037-1045.

Laws T.A., Fiedler BA., Parker B., Hall P., Kandunias C, 2010 'Understanding educators' knowledge of, and support needs for students with a mental health problem', presented at the 21st International Networking Education in Healthcare Conference, University of Cambridge, UK, September.

Kandunias, C. Accounting for intangible assets - Web presence - the birth of a new asset, School of Commerce research paper series ; 2000/3

Australian Taxation Index, Oz Tax Australia's first Taxation Index (Co-founder 1995)

Kandunias, C. Accounting for Franchises in Australia, The Outlook, Volume V, No. 1, Fall 1994

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Current research & highlights

Assessment of the financial performance of Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL),Sports financial management.,Identification of social intangibles and their impact on the decision making of stakeholders of major sporting organisations.,Education and social media.

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University of South Australia AUSTRALIA
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Other

Consultant / advisor / Committee Member, Greek Orthodox Community - Adelaide - Member of Inter Community Committee of Australia, (Community organisation) , 2005 to 2016

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Teaching & student supervision

Teaching strengths

  • Explanation of complex content to students.

Highlights

Open Universities Australia (OUA) Tutor Excellence Award for 2010

Accounting for Business

Financial Accounting I

Auditing Theory and Practice

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Courses and programs

Courses I teach and/or co-ordinate

  • ACCT 3005 Auditing Theory and Practice (2018)
  • ACCT 3005 Auditing Theory and Practice (2017)
  • ACG 31 Auditing Theory and Practice (2017)

Programs I'm associated with

  • DBACC - Bachelor of Accounting
  • DBCC - Bachelor of Commerce
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