Dr Ruvendra Nandan - Researcher Profile

Ruvendra Nandan

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Department of Accounting and Finance
Faculty of Business and Economics

Biography

Ruvendra Nandan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Finance.

 

Prior to joining Monash University, he worked as a Senior Lecturer and Convenor for the Discipline of Accounting and Finance, and Associate Dean (School of Business) at James Cook University in Cairns. Ruvendra's other academic appointments were at the University of the South Pacific and the National University of Fiji, both in Suva, Fiji. His research interests are in the area of management accounting and control systems (MACS), particularly changes in MACS in both public and private sector organisations, using social and organisational theories. His other research interests include sustainability and management accounting issues, management accounting needs of SMEs' and the role of professional accountants in meeting those needs, and small and medium accounting practice issues.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING)
Institution: University of Bristol, UK
Year awarded: 1997
CERTIFIED PRACTICING ACCOUNTANT MEMBERSHIP
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1995
MASTER OF ARTS (ACCOUNTING)
Institution: University of South Pacific
Year awarded: 1992
POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ACCOUNTING
Institution: University of South Pacific
Year awarded: 1990
CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION
Institution: The National University of Fiji
Year awarded: 1981
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (HONS)
Institution: University of Delhi
Year awarded: 1980

Publications

Book Chapters

Nandan, R.K., Alam, M., 2004, Changes in management control systems in a state-owned development financial institution: Some evidence from Fiji, in Accounting and accountability in emerging and transition economies, eds T. Hopper and Z. Hoque, Elsevier Ltd, Netherlands, pp. 305-331.

Journal Articles

Nandan, R.K., 2010, Management accounting needs of SMEs and the role of professional accountants: A renewed research agenda, Journal of Applied Management Accounting Research [P], vol 8, issue 1, Institute of Certified Management Accountants, Clayton North Vic Australia, pp. 67-79.

Alam, M., Nandan, R., 2010, Organisational change and innovation in small accounting practices: Evidence from the field, Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change [P], vol 6, issue 4, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 460-476.

Lawrence, S., Sharma, U., Nandan, R.K., 2009, Giving institutional theory a critical edge: A study of systems change in a Fijian housing authority, International Journal of Critical Accounting [P], vol 1, issue 4, Inderscience Publishers, USA, pp. 390-405.

Ciccotosto, S.K., Nandan, R.K., Smorfitt, D., 2008, Issues facing small accounting practices in regional North Queensland: An exploratory study, Australian Accounting Review, vol 18, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Richmond Vic Australia, pp. 324-333.

Alam, M., Nandan, R.K., 2008, Management control systems and public sector reform: A Fijian case study, Accounting Accountability and Performance [P], vol 14, issue 2, Griffith University, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Australia, pp. 1-28.

Nandan, R.K., 2006, Budgetary allocation for affirmative action: making sense of race, Fijian Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji, vol 4, issue 1, Fiji Institute of Applied Studies, Fiji, pp. 47-64.

Nandan, R.K., Alam, M., 2005, Accounting and the reproduction of race relations in Fiji: a Discourse on race and accounting in colonial context, Accountancy Business & the Public Interest, vol 4, issue 1, Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs, http://visar.csustan.edu/aaba/aabajourVol4-No1.html, pp. 1-34.

Alam, M., Lawrence, S., Nandan, R.K., 2004, Accounting for economic development in the context of post-colonialism: the Fijian experience, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol 15, issue 1, Academic Press, UK, pp. 135-157.

Nandan, R.K., Lodhia, S.K., 2004, Current environmental accounting problematic: A shift from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism, Accountancy Business and the Public Interest, vol 3, issue 1, Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs, UK, pp. 1-31.

Teaching Commitment

AFW2020 Cost information for decision making

AFW3021 Performance measurement and control