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).