Professor Donald Stokes
Research Grants 1992-1996
- University of New South Wales, ARC Small Grant. An Analysis of Large Audit Firms’ National
and Local Audit Reputations - Audit Switching Evidence ($7,460) 1997
- University of Technology, Sydney, ARC Small Grant. An Analysis of large Audit Firms National
and Local Brand Name Reputations - Audit Pricing Evidence ($12,000) 1998
- University of Sydney, ARC REIF Grant. Supporting Microstructure and Corporate Finance
Research in the accounting and finance disciplines across 24 universities ($540,000) 2000
- University of Technology, Sydney, ARC SPIRT Grant. Intangibles, Valuation and Dividend
Imputation ($247,000 ARC, $180,000 industry funding) 2000
- CRC for Technology Enabled Capital Markets ($14.2 million Federal Government, $47 million
industry funding) 2001
- Systematic Infrastructure Initiative ($5.5 million) 2001
- University of Technology, Sydney, ATN Grant. A spatial analysis of audit switches ($9,000)
2001
Publications 1992-2002
Referred Journals
- "Auditor Independence and Fee Dependence", Journal of Accounting and Economics,
forthcoming 2002 (with A.Craswell and J. Laughton).
- "Brand Name Audit Pricing, Industry Specialization and Leadership Premiums post Big 8 and
Big 6 Mergers" Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming Spring 2002, (with A.
Ferguson).
- "Evaluating intangible assets: The new financial management, reporting and analysis challenge",
JASSA, forthcoming 2002 (with Z. Matolcsy and P. Wells).
- "The capitalisation of intangibles - regulatory framework and current practice", Australian
Accounting Review, 11(2), pp 22-38, July 2001, (with Z. Matolcsy and A. Wyatt).
- "Giving substance to intangibles" JASSA, Issue 4, Summer 2000, (with W. Lonergan and
P.Wells).
- "City Markets as a Unit of Analysis in Audit Research and the Re-examination of Big 6 Market
Shares", Abacus, Vol.35, No.2, 1999, (with J. Francis and D. Anderson)
- "An Analysis of the Factors Influencing the Magnitude of Writedown Disclosures", Accounting
and Finance, November 1998, (with J. Cotter and A. Wyatt).
- "Equity Accounting: Empirical Evidence and Lessons from the Past", Australian Accounting
Review, Issue 14, Vol.7 No.2, October, 1997, (with M. Vallely and P. Leisch).
- "Franchising operational units in Australia", Franchising Research: An International Journal,
Vol2. No.1, 1997, (with L. Frazer).
- "Auditor Preferences for Liability Limitation", Accounting and Finance, November 1995, (with
R. Johnson and D. Watts).
- "Reaction to the Mandatory Write-down provisions of AASB 1010: Accounting for the
Revaluation of Non-current Assets", Australian Accounting Review, November 1995, (with J.
Cotter and T. Martin).
- "Auditing, Directorships and the Demand for Monitoring", Journal of Accounting and Public
Policy, Winter 1993, (with D. Anderson and J. Francis).
- "Corporate Takeovers and Auditor Switching", Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory,
Spring 1993, (with D. Anderson and I. Zimmer).
- "Covenants and Accounting Information in the Markets for Classes of Preferred Stock"
Contemporary Accounting Research, Spring 1993, (with M. Whincop).