Professor Keith Houghton is Dean of the ANU College of Business and Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the Australian National University. He previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce and Director of the National Graduate School of Management. His appointments in the business community include working as a consultant and advisor to accounting firms, commercial organisations and public sector entities including public sector audit authorities. He has provided expert evidence on financial matters in litigation and commercial arbitration in both Australia and the USA. He was visiting professor of accounting at the University of Texas, Austin, teaching on the PhD program (2001 and 2006) and has previously served as a visiting professor in other universities in the US and elsewhere. For over a decade until 2002 he was Fitzgerald Professor of The University of Melbourne.
Professor Houghton holds degrees from the University of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a Fellow of CPA Australia and the Institute of Accountants in Australia. He holds a Practising Certificate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Professor Houghton’s teaching and research supervisory responsibilities have included undergraduate, honours and postgraduate coursework and Masters (by thesis) and PhD supervision. He has written and published widely in international journals (including the Journal of Accounting Research) domestic scholarly journals (including Abacus) and served on a number of Editorial Boards (including the Accounting Review and the Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting). The research paradigm applied by Professor Houghton involves the use of real world data, giving his research a clear policy focus. Professor Houghton was a member of the Australian Audit and Assurance Standards Board until the end of 2005. He was also a member of the three-person taskforce created by the accounting profession in response to evidence provided to the current HIH Insurance Royal Commission. The 2002 Australian Parliamentary Inquiry on Auditor Independence made specific note of Professor Houghton’s work on audit quality. During 2002 to 2005 he was one of two independent reviewers of the Australian audit practice of the accounting firm KPMG. Until 2007 he was a member of the governing council of the American Accounting Association. in 2008 he was elected as Chairperson of the University's Academic Board and a Memeber of the Coucil of the ANU.
From 2005 Dr Houghton lead a team of researchers who completed a major ARC Linkage grant entitled "The Future of Audit". The 500 pages report was issued in mid-2009.
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