Craig Deegan, BCom (University of NSW), MCom (Hons) (University of NSW), PhD (University of Queensland), FCA, is Professor of Accounting in the School of Accounting & Law at RMIT University in Melbourne. Craig has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in Australia for more than two decades and has presented lectures internationally, including in the United States, France, England, Wales, Scotland, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Hong Kong and China.

Prior to working in the university sector, Craig worked as a chartered accountant. His research has tended to focus on various social and environmental accountability and financial accounting issues and has been published in a number of leading international accounting journals, including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting, Accountability and Auditing Journal, Accounting and Finance, British Accounting Review and the International Journal of Accounting. Craig’s primary teaching interests are in the area of financial accounting, financial accounting theory, and research methods.

He has successfully supervised more than ten PhD students to completion who have subsequently taken academic positions in Australia and overseas and he continues to supervise many research students. He also serves on the editorial boards of several international accounting journals.

Craig regularly provides consulting services to corporations, government and industry bodies on issues pertaining to financial accounting and corporate social and environmental accountability. He also works closely with the Australian accounting profession and has authored a number of research papers and monographs issued by the profession, as well as being a former chairperson of the Triple Bottom Line Issues Group of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and board member of the National Institute of Accountants. He has been the recipient of various teaching and research awards, including teaching prizes sponsored by KPMG and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. In July 1998 he was the recipient of the Peter Brownell Manuscript Award, an annual research award presented by the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. In 1998 he was also awarded the University of Southern Queensland Individual Award for Research Excellence.

Craig is also the author of the leading financial accounting textbook Australian Financial Accounting, now in its sixth edition, and (with Grant Samkin) its adaptation New Zealand Financial Accounting (now in its fourth edition). Financial Accounting Theory is widely used throughout Australia as well as a number of other countries. With the assistance of Jeffrey Unerman, it has also been adapted for the European market.