Professor Paul Andon

Interim Dean

Paul Andon is a Professor of Accounting, and also currenty serves as Interim Dean. Paul has previously held a range of Faculty leadership roles, including Senior Deputy Dean (Education and Student Experience), Faculty Academic Lead, and Head of School for Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, and Deputy Head of School and Director of Engagement for the former School of Accounting. My work spans research on accounting and professional practice, business education reform, and academic leadership leade leadership in Australia's leading business school.

Paul's academic interests sit at the intersection of financial management, business education, and rapid techological change.

Paul studies the human side of accounting. That is, he looks beyond the numbers to examine how how accounting practices such as performance measurement, costing, and auditing shape how people behave, how they work together, what they prioritise and value, and how they build (or break) trust and accountability. Specifically his work has explore how individuals rationalise financial crime, how KPIs and digital algorithm are mobilised to manage the modern workforce. how the accounting profession is organised and governed, and how auditing practices are increasingly used to restore public trust in high stakes contexts.

His research has been supported by the Australian Research Council and partners including McGrathNicol’s Financial Crime Exchange, the Australian Institute of Criminology, CIMA, and CAANZ.

Paul has published in leading international journals (FT50 and A*) in accounting and management, and his work has been showcased in industry forums and keynote presentations on financial crime and the future of the accounting profession. He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

As a higher education leader, Professor Andon has overseen significant educational reform across undergraduate and postgraduate programs. His contributions include establishing a Faculty-wide AI irection, a School-wide accounting education strategy, redesign of the Master of Professional Accounting with embedded CPA pathways; the creation of the Sustainability & Social Impact major in the Bachelor of Commerce; and the development of courses in Fraud Examination and Management Accounting.

Professor Andon has received teaching and research awards from the International Federation of Accountants, the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Emerald Publishing, the AGSM, the UNSW Business School.