Biography

Asit Bhattacharyya is a lecturer of Accounting at the University of Newcastle. He joined the University of Newcastle in 2008. Asit previously taught at the Monash University (Singapore) and University of New England for over nine years. His main research interest areas are (i) Corporate social and environmental accounting, reporting and accountability, (ii) Accounting education and learning. His teaching expertise is in Financial Accounting, Cost and Management Accounting and Financial Management. His PhD is on corporate social and environmental accountability from Macquarie University.

Qualifications

• Master of Commerce, University of Calcutta, 1990
• Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of New England, 2010
• Bachelor of Commerce, University of Calcutta, 1986

Research

Research keywords

• Accounting
• Business
• Corporate social responsibility
• Environmental accountability
• Finance
• Social accountability

Research expertise

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Social accountability and reporting
• Environmental accountability and reporting
• Accounting learning by international students
• Accounting education

Fields of Research

Centres and Groups

Centre

• Research Institute - The Centre for Institutional and Organisational Studies