Craig Deegan
Professor
Accounting
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
"Craig’s major research area is the area of social and environmental accountability – an area in which he has established an international reputation and an area in which he has a large number of refereed journal articles. He uses his research knowledge to also work closely with a number of corporations, professional and industry bodies, and government departments on various social and environmental accounting issues. In this respect he has attracted a number of research consultancies and grants. He also supervises numerous PhD students in the area Craig also has a major interest in financial accounting – an area in which he is the author of the leading financial accounting textbook, Australian Financial Accounting (with McGraw-Hill and currently in its 6th edition) – a book that is widely used throughout Australian universities. A New Zealand adaption of this book (New Zealand Financial Accounting, McGraw-Hill by Deegan and Samkin) is also used by the majority of New Zealand universities."
Research Interest
financial accounting
Publications
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 So, who really is a "noted author" within the accounting literature? A reflection on Benson et al. (2015)
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 Demand for, and impediments to, the disclosure of information about climate change-related corporate governance practicesÂ
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 Twenty five years of social and environmental accounting research within Critical Perspectives of Accounting: Hits, misses and ways forward
