9th ANNUAL DINNER & AWARDS CEREMONY photo album

9th ANNUAL DINNER & AWARDS CEREMONY photo album

Inductee Margaret Abernethy CITATION read by Anne Lillis Fitzgerald Chair of Accounting University of Melbourne nominated by Anne Lillis Fitzgerald Chair of Accounting University of Melbourne

CITATION Margaret Anne Abernethy After graduating Bachelor of Economics with first class honours from La Trobe University in 1983, Margaret (Maggie) Abernethy worked as a tutor, completing her PhD part-time. Her doctoral dissertation at La Trobe laid the groundwork for seminal contributions to the accounting literature on the management of professional workers and the structure and professionalisation of hospital administration. Thirty-one peer-reviewed journal articles and four book chapters later, Maggie Abernethy is one of three Australians in the top 100 across all fields of accounting. Currently ranked eighth in the world in managerial accounting with 5,652 citations to her credit, Maggie has an impressive H index of 25. She has attracted considerable research funding including the recent successful bid to establish a Centre for Corporate Governance and Regulation. Prestigious international editorial board appointments include senior editorships at two key journals Contemporary Accounting Research and Management Accounting Research, along with membership of the editorial board of The Accounting Review and Journal of Management Accounting Research. Maggie was editor of the leading Australian journal Accounting and Finance for the period 1999-2001 and is currently a member of the editorial boards of several Australian journals including Accounting and Finance, Abacus and the Australian Accounting Review. Her international research reputation has secured her several prestigious visiting appointments overseas including Ferrara, Tilburg and Pablo de Olavide, Seville. Maggie is an excellent role model, supporter of junior faculty and supervisor whose responsiveness is outstanding. Fourteen of her publications have been jointly authored with doctoral students. In the last decade Maggie led the development of the Melbourne doctoral program. The program, which is benchmarked internationally, represents a fundamental shift in doctoral education in Australia with two years of advanced coursework, taught by leading local and international scholars, preceding the three-year doctoral research program. Maggie has held many leadership roles including Commissioner for the City of Monash, 1995-1997. She was appointed to the Arthur Anderson Chair of Accounting in the University of Melbourne in 1997 and has subsequently been Associate Dean (Research) between 1996-1998, Head of the Department of Accounting, 2000-2002 and, as holder of the Sidney Myer Chair of Commerce, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics from 2004 to 2012. Maggie was also appointed Chair of the University Expenditure Review Committee in 2006. On her return to the Department of Accounting, Maggie Abernethy was appointed to the Sir Douglas Copland Chair of Commerce. Critical through Maggie s years in senior management and academic positions has been her focus on providing opportunities for both the best students, and those suffering disadvantage. This has been accomplished through the establishment of several endowed scholarship programs. In 2008 Maggie Abernethy was named Telstra Business Woman of the Year for the Community and Government sector in recognition of her contribution to higher education. In 2012 she was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences a highly prestigious appointment recognising intellectual contributions to the accounting discipline. The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame recognises Maggie Abernethy as a scholar, mentor and senior administrator of the highest order.

Anne Lillis (nominator) reading the citation for Maggie Abernethy

Maggie Abernethy accepting her award Speaker Bob Officer presenting the award to Maggie Abernethy

Craig Fox, Kirsten Abernethy, Alex Abernethy, Maggie Abernethy, Karen Abernethy, Wade Lovich Nominator Anne Lillis and Maggie Abernethy

Maggie Abernethy and Alex Abernethy

Inductee Ron Weber CITATION read by Philip Hancock Professor University of Western Australia nominated by Philip Hancock Professor University of Western Australia

CITATION Ron Weber The University Medal and a first-class honours degree in Commerce from the University of Queensland started Ron Weber s career. Masters and doctoral studies at Minnesota preceded academic appointments at ANU, Queensland and Monash and visiting professorships at Minnesota, New York, British Columbia, Otago, Alberta and NTU Singapore. Ron Weber has had an outstanding career that has extended beyond accounting into information systems. Ron has published 50 academic research papers, many in top tier journals in both disciplines, nine books and monographs and twelve book chapters. This contribution and impact in the academy is reflected with over 10,000 citations culminating in an outstanding H-index of 43. Twenty-six doctoral students, several of whom are now world-renowned scholars in the information systems field, have benefited from his supervision, as have 33 course-work masters and honours students. In 2017, two special issues of the Journal of Database Management were published to recognise some of the pioneering work Ron and his colleague Yair Wand had done in advancing theory in the field of information systems. As further acknowledgment of this seminal contribution, a major literature review was published in December 2017 in the top tier information systems journal MIS Quarterly that reviewed the literature motivated by their initial attempts to develop core theories. In the teaching field Ron s outstanding contribution has been well recognised. In 2000 he received the most prestigious Prime Minister's Award as University Teacher of the Year, won the Australian Universities Teaching Committee Award in Business, Economics and Related Studies and was inaugural winner of the Outstanding Educator Award made by the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. In the early 1980s, Ron published a graduate textbook on EDP auditing, one of the first published on the topic. The book went through two revisions and was for some time a standard reference for the Information Systems Audit and Control Association's Certified Information Systems Auditor examination. In recognition of his contributions to the field of information systems auditing, the Association awarded Ron one of four Silver Jubilee Awards in 1994. Ron Weber has served professional bodies in a range of positions. He was a Divisional Councillor of the Australian Society of Accountants, 1984-1988, and from 1996 to 1999 was a member of the National Education Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. From 1987 to 1989 he was Australian President, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand and in 1997 served as president of the Association for Information Systems. Ron has also held a multitude of editorial positions including The Accounting Review and Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly. Ron Weber s career at the University of Queensland from 1979 until 2002 includes part-time Tutor, Reader, Professor of Commerce, Professor of Information Systems, Associate Dean Research and Acting Head of Department. Ron was subsequently Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, 2004-2012, and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Monash South Africa in 2013. Ron Weber was elected Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2000, awarded Life Membership of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand in 2002 and the Association for Information Systems in 2016. A Notable Contributions to the Accounting Literature was awarded by the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand in 2000. In November 2002 Ron Weber was elected to the highly prestigious position of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. The Australian Accounting Hall of Fame honours Ron Weber as a scholar, theorist, educator and office-holder of the highest order. In doing so it acknowledges his extraordinary dual contributions to the disciplines of accounting and information systems.

Phil Hancock (nominator) reading the citation for Ron Weber

Ron Weber accepting his award Speaker Bob Officer presenting the award to Ron Weber

Phil Hancock (nominator) and Ron Weber Kay Weber and Ron Weber

Kay Weber and Ron Weber

Directors of the Centre for Accounting and Industry Partnerships and the Hall of Fame Director Phill Cobbin L-R Brad Potter, Stewart Leech, Phill Cobbin and Kevin Stevenson Major Sponsor CPA Australia, the inductees and the Directors of the Centre for Accounting and Industry Partnerships and the Hall of Fame Director Phill Cobbin L-R rear Jon Aloni (CPA), Maggie Abernethy, Ron Weber L-R front Stewart Leech, Brad Potter, Kevin Stevenson, Phill Cobbin

Speakers, inductees and Directors of the Centre for Accounting and Industry Partnerships and the Hall of Fame Director Phill Cobbin L-R rear Bob Officer, Maggie Abernethy, Ron Weber, Bryan Howieson L-R front Stewart Leech, Phill Cobbin, Brad Potter and Kevin Stevenson Inductees and Head of the Department of Accounting, Matthew Pinnuck L-R Maggie Abernethy, Matthew Pinnuck, Ron Weber

Director of CAIP, Brad Potter Speaker Bob Officer AM Cameo speaker Bryan Howieson

Speaker Phil Brown Hall of Fame Director, Phill Cobbin Head of the Department of Accounting, Matthew Pinnuck

Guests

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