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Dr Kathy Rao

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Dr Kathy Rao
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Modern Slavery in Supply Chains
  • Management Accounting
  • Financial Accounting

Kathy Rao is a Lecturer in Accounting at the UniSA Business School. She joined UniSA in February 2016.  Prior joining to UniSA, she has been teaching and tutoring in the areas of financial accounting, management accounting and Governance, ethics and Sustainability topics at Flinders University, Adelaide.  As a Lecturer in Accounting, Kathy Rao coordinates undergraduate and post graduate Management Accounting courses, as well as teaching in first year and second year accounting courses.

Kathy Rao holds a Bachelor of Commerce (honours) and a PhD.  Kathy Rao has recently completed her PhD in the area of CSR Reporting and Corporate Governance.  Kathy Rao’s current research focuses on gender diversity effect on... Read more

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About me

Kathy Rao is a Lecturer in Accounting at the UniSA Business School. She joined UniSA in February 2016.  Prior joining to UniSA, she has been teaching and tutoring in the areas of financial accounting, management accounting and Governance, ethics and Sustainability topics at Flinders University, Adelaide.  As a Lecturer in Accounting, Kathy Rao coordinates undergraduate and post graduate Management Accounting courses, as well as teaching in first year and second year accounting courses.

Kathy Rao holds a Bachelor of Commerce (honours) and a PhD.  Kathy Rao has recently completed her PhD in the area of CSR Reporting and Corporate Governance.  Kathy Rao’s current research focuses on gender diversity effect on corporate social responsibility and modern slavery in supply chains in Australian companies.  Kathy Rao’s research have been presented and published in various journals and conferences including Journal of Business Ethics, Meditary Journal and APIRA conference.

With over a five years teaching experience in a variety of institutions both in Australia and India including an extensive experience of working as an audit assistant, Kathy Rao brings more than 5 years of experience in Accounting to the UniSA Business School.

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Member, CPA Australia.

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Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) Flinders University

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) Flinders University

  • Certified Practising Accountant CPA Australia

Work history

Lecturer, UniSA Business School, University of South Australia ( 2016-present)

Casual teaching staff, Fliders Business School, Australia (2009-2015)

Research Assistant, Flinders Business School, Australia (2010-2010)

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Highlights

Gender Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility Decsions

Modern Slavery in Supply Chains

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Research in Progress:

Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards and CSR

Modern Slavery in Supply Chains

Board,  Management Decisions and CSR Reporting

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Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

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Journal Articles

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2016

Rao, K & Tilt, C 2016, 'Board diversity and CSR reporting: an Australian study', Meditari accountancy research, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 182-210.

13 7
2015

Rao, K & Tilt, C 2015, 'Board composition and corporate social responsibility: the role of diversity, gender, strategy and decision making', Journal of business ethics, vol. 138, no, 2, pp. 327-347.

12 20 2
2012

Rao, KK, Tilt, CA & Lester, LH 2012, 'Corporate governance and environmental reporting: An Australian study', Corporate governance : the international journal of business in society, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 143-163.

40 5 2

Conferences

Year Output
2016

Rao, K & Tilt, CA 2016, 'Gender and CSR decisions: Australian evidence', Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA) Conference, RMIT University, article no. 187, pp. 1-28.

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2013

Rao, KK & Tilt, CA 2013, 'Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility: A critical review', in K Hughes et al. (eds), 7th Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference, APIRA - Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting, pp. 1-24.

Other outputs

Rao, K, and Tilt, CA 2015, 'Board diversity and CSR reporting: Australian evidence', in Dumay, John, and Hazelton, James (editors) (eds), Australasian Centre on Social and Environmental Accounting Research Conference, Academic Publishers and Publishing International, pp. 116-125.

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Gender Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility Decsions

Modern Slavery in Supply Chains

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Courses I teach and/or co-ordinate

  • ACCT 5016 Management Accounting M (2018)
  • ACCT 5016 Management Accounting M (2017)
  • ACCT 2006 Management Accounting (2018)
  • ACCT 2013 Cost Management and Control Systems (2017)
  • ACCT 1009 Accounting Principles for Business Decisions (2017)
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Board composition and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from Jordan Current
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