The impact of Australian higher education policy changes on the production of PhDs in the field of accounting and finance

Heaney, Richard; Evans, Terry D; Macauley, Peter; Pearson, Margot

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The impact of Australian higher education policy changes on the production of PhDs in the field of accounting and finance

Date

2013

Authors

Heaney, Richard

Evans, Terry D

Macauley, Peter

Pearson, Margot

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

This article examines the growth in accounting and finance PhD graduates across all Australian universities from 1965 to 2006. It investigates the impact of the major changes that were initiated in 1988 in higher education in Australia with the introducti