Matthew is a Senior Lecturer within the University of Sydney Business School’s Discipline of Accounting. His research interests focus primarily on sustainability, and how accounting can contribute to addressing related questions. Specifically, his research has focused on diversity and inclusion, water management, water accounting, and financial accounting. Matthew's research interests stem primarily from practical challenges emerging in industry, and the innovations and developments that occur in response to those challenges. Recent research has exploring LGBTI+ diversity developments within the ‘Big 4’ professional services firms including perceptions of the value of related initiatives, insights into factors driving related change, and perceptions of how related change impact on staff and clients. Matthew takes all of this research into the classroom, in his teaching of units focused on both financial accounting and sustainability accounting.
Clean and secure water for everyone – an accounting story
India, which has 18 percent of the world’s population but only 4 percent of the world’s water resources, will become water scarce by 2025. India is highly dependent on limited fresh water sources, including the annual Himalayan melt.
