Ms Maya Purushothaman

Lecturer

Telephone: (61 8)  6304 2073  
Email: m.purushothaman@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.376  

 

Current teaching

  • Accounting Theory and Auditing

Background

Maya worked as an Auditor in Ernst & Young for three years, before beginning her academic career. Prior to joining ECU, Maya taught financial accounting at Murdoch University and Curtin University of Technology.

Staff qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Accounting with First Class Honours

Research

Current research area:

  • Environmental and Social Accounting

Recent publications

Refereed journal articles:

  • Brown, A. M. , Purushothaman, M. , Scharl, A & Astami, E.A (2007) “Natural Environmental Disclosures In Pacific Island Countries: Analysing The Public Communication Of South Pacific Exchange (SPSE) Entities” The Journal of Accounting, Management and Economics Research (Accepted for Publication subject to minor changes);
  • Stace, R., Brown, A.M., Purushothoman, M. Scharl, A. and Weichselbraun, A. (2007), "National Indicators of Well Being: Lessons from Pacific Island Countries' Tourism" Accounting for Pacific Island Countries' Tourism, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research (Accepted for Publication);
  • Porter,S, Brown, A. M, Purushothaman, M & Scharl, A (2006), Dealing with change: the strategies of the International Accounting Standards Board and its funders, The Journal of Strategic Change 15(6): 305-317;
  • Brown, A. M. and Purushothaman, M. (2005), Public Sector Aid Organisations: Philanthropy or Self Interest?, The Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge, . 6 (1);
  • Purushothaman, M., Tower, G., Hancock, P., Taplin, R. (2000), “Determinants of Corporate Social Reporting Practices of Listed Singapore companies", Pacific Accounting Review; 12(2):101-133

Conference papers in proceeding:

  • Purushothaman, M. (2006) Revolutionising Accounting Web Research, Paper presented at Curtin Business School : Doctoral Students Colloquium , Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia;
  • Hancock, P., Purushothaman, M. Scharl, A. and Brown, A. M. (2006) Environmental Disclosures on Corporate Web Sites: A Singapore Perspective, EABR Conference, Florence, June 26-29;
  • Stace, R., Brown, A.M., Purushothoman, M. Scharl, A. and Weichselbraun, A. (2006), "National Indicators of Well Being: Lessons from Pacific Island Countries' Tourism" Accounting for Pacific Island Countries' Tourism, British Accounting Association Conference*, Portsmouth, April;
  • Purushothoman, M., Hancock, P., A. M. Brown, and Scharl, A. (2006) Online environmental practices of Singaporean Listed Companies, European Accounting Association Conference*, Dublin, March;
  • Purushothaman, M., Brown, A. M., Scharl, A. and Weichselbraun, A. (2005), Assessing Natural Environmental Disclosures of POMSoX Entities, Enviroinfo2005 conference, 19th International conference, August6-8 , Brno, Czech Republic;
  • Brown, A. M. & Purushothaman., M (2005), TBL: Fact or Fiction ? 2005 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Accountability Symposium Conference*, 2 July, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
  • Brown, A. M., Purushothaman, M., and Scharl, A.. (2005), A Web Assessment of Natural Environmental Disclosures of SPSX Entities, 2005 British Accounting Association Conference, 30 May-1 April, Edinburgh, Scotland;
  • Purushothaman, M. (2004) Triple Bottom Line Practices Of Listed Companies On The World Wide Web: A Singapore And United States Perspective, Paper presented at Curtin Business School : Doctoral Students Colloquium , Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia;
  • Brown, A. M. and Purushothaman, M. (2004), The Values Of Ausaid And Its Mobilisation Of Accreditation And Accounting, Paper presented at ASBBS 2004 Seventh Annual International Conference Values in Business Practices Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns.