Nick McGuigan
Associate Professor of Accounting and Director of Education
Dr. Alessandro Ghio
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Why this course
By widening the lens on traditionally technical disciplines, this course exposes the deeply interconnected nature of business and society, even when it comes to activities such as financial reporting
This capstone course expands student perspectives using multi-disciplinary approaches. Through garden visits, film, the Socratic method and other highly experiential pedagogy grounded in the humanities, students are invited to imagine entirely new applications and frameworks for a business practice ruled by convention
Course Highlights
Learning outcomes:
Be critical and creative scholars
Be responsible and effective global citizens
Demonstrate broad knowledge and technical skills in their specialization
Provide discipline-based solutions relevant to the business, professional and public policy communities that we serve
Additional Course Materials
Detailed Reading/Resource List
Australian Refugee Crisis Assignment
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Biography
Nick McGuigan works as an Innovator, Instigator and Disruptor to create future-oriented business education programs that focus on innovation, creativity and design thinking. He has a particular passion for accountability where he co-founded The Accountability Institute - a progressive platform with an aim of fostering collaborations between art, science, technology and economics, bringing these fields into conversation to create a new language of business – a language of accountability. He researches in the areas of integrated thinking, learning technologies, holistic systems design and regenerative economics. This has led to the awarding of competitive research funds of over one and a half million Australian dollars, including Federal State level grants in both Australia and Germany. He has published widely in international accounting and education journals, been invited to present at research centres and professional organisations in the UK, US, South America, Europe, Africa and Australasia. He serves on boards and committees of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). Nick is an Associate Editor of Accounting Education and Issues in Accounting Education. He instigated Monash Business School’s newly created Artist-In-Residency program, conceptually designed the world’s first ever accounting perfume and together with colleagues and the accounting profession is embarking on research that investigates a Queer perspective of accounting.
Alessandro Ghio is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Accounting at Monash University. He holds a Ph.D. in financial accounting from ESSEC Business School and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Pisa. His research focuses on issues surrounding financial reporting quality, corporate social media communication, and the sociology of the accounting profession. Alessandro has published in several academic journals and he co-authored a book on Accounting Choices in Family Firms. Alessandro received the Best Paper Award at the 2018 IAAER World Congress. He is the co-instigator of the project “Queering Accounting” and he has led and/or taken key roles in competitive research funded projects to study social mobility in education and practices supporting women accountants. Prior to joining Monash University, Alessandro has been a controller in a large telecommunication organization, a consultant for the Italian Ministry of Education on social mobility in education and a visiting scholar at Indiana University.