Professor Carol Tilt

Professor Carol Tilt is a Professor of Accounting.  She is the Co-Director of the UniSA Yunus Social Business Centre.  Carol has degrees in Education and Accounting, and her PhD was on environmental policy and reporting by Australian Companies.  She is a fellow of CPA Australia, is a CA and FCMA, and is a member of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). She is also a member of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) in Scotland.

Carol has held previous positions as the Director of Research at the Australian Institute of Business and the Dean and Professor of Accounting at Flinders Business School. She has over 20 years of experience teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the areas of accounting, theory and research methods. She was also on the governing council of CSEAR.

Carol has over 50 refereed articles and conference papers in the area of corporate social and environmental reporting, including a seminal paper on influences on social reporting that has over 500 Google Scholar citations. She is a co-Editor of the leading journal, Accounting Forum.  She is also on the editorial board of a number of journals, including the highly ranked Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal.  She has supervised many higher degree students, examined theses and served on numerous academic committees.  She is also on the Board of Directors for Zoos South Australia, was formerly a member of the Professional Services Industry Cluster on Aboriginal Employment, and sat on the Board of the Don Dunstan Foundation.

FCPA (Fellow, CPA Australia)

CA (CAANZ)

FCMA (Fellow, Institute of Certified Management Accountants)

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University

• Bachelor of Education South Australian College of Advanced Education

• Diploma in Accounting Flinders University

Work history

Professor of Accounting, School of Commerce, UniSA Business School 2015-present

Research Director, Australian Institute of Business 2014

Dean, Flinders Business School, Flinders University 2010-2013