Alan Robb is a senior lecturer in accountancy at the University of Canterbury. He has served two terms as Head of the Department of Accountancy, Finance & Information Systems. His academic specialisations include financial accounting, fraud and company failure, business ethics, and co-operatives.
He has wide business experience internationally. He is frequently consulted by accounting practitioners and by major businesses and has been called as an expert witness by chartered accountants and before the Securities Commission.
He is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Co-operative Studies ( UK), the International Journal of Co-operative Management ( UK) and Accountancy, Business and the Public Interest ( UK) and was on the Editorial Board of Pacific Accounting Review (NZ). He is an ad hoc reviewer for Abacus (Aus), Accounting and Finance (Aus), Accounting History (Aus), Australian Accounting Review, Australian Journal of Management, Pacific AccountingReview.
Alan has been a keynote speaker at seminars organised by the New Zealand Co-operatives Association, New Zealand Association of Credit Unions, Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand, Monash University Agribusiness Co-operative Leadership and Governance Forum, and the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance.
In 2001 Alan was elected to the Council of the University of Canterbury for a four year term.
Alan has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants since 1970; he is also a member of the Institute of Directors and an Associate Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management.
Contacts:
Email: alan.robb@canterbury.ac.nz
Phone: +64 3 364 2618
Fax: +64 3 364 2727
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Alan has written extensively on company and financial accounting and has authored or co-authored Accounting – Information for Action (Prentice Hall), Company Accounting in New Zealand (Wiley), Dictionary of Accounting & Finance Terms (Longmans), Australian Dictionary of Accounting & Finance Terms (Longman), ‘Business Ethics in New Zealand’ in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management (2ed). Alan is a regular contributor to the National Business Review, The Independent, and the NZ Farmers Weekly. He is widely respected as an independent and authoritative commentator on business issues.
Last updated: 28 January, 2005 |
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Co-ops are good performers
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Corporatisation not answer for Fonterra
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Draft disclosure standard will be confusing
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Fonterra fair value share change needed
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Fonterra National Foods bid 'foolish'
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NZ co-ops shine in study
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Open register risky key to maximising share price
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PPCS improves financial reporting procedures; audit fees rocket
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PPCS use of EBITDA figures misleading investors
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Tatua's report sets high standard
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