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Professor Craig Deegan is a leading researcher in the areas of social and environmental accounting and accountability, and financial reporting. He is Professor of Accounting at the University of Tasmania, Australia and was formerly Professor of Accounting at RMIT University in Melbourne (2001-2020), and Professor of Accounting at The University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba (1996-2001). Before being an accounting academic, Professor Deegan was a Chartered Accountant and is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. He holds a B.Com and M.Com (Hons) from the University of New South Wales and a PhD from the University of Queensland.

Professor Craig Deegan is the sole author of three market leading accounting textbooks that have been used extensively throughout Australia and internationally, namely:

Deegan, C., Financial Accounting, McGraw Hill, 9th edition, 2020 (first edition published in 1995);

Deegan, C., Financial Accounting Theory, Cengage, 5th edition, 2023 (first edition published in 1999);

Deegan, C., An Introduction to Accounting: Accountability in Organisations and Society, 2nd edition, 2023 (first edition published in 2020).

Professor Craig Deegan is one of the most highly cited accounting researchers in the world in the area of social and environmental accounting and he is considered to be a pioneer in advancing the practice of sustainability reporting. His research publications appear in many leading international research journals including: Accounting, Organizations and Society; Accounting and Business Research; Accounting, Accountability and Auditing Journal; Accounting and Finance; British Accounting Review; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Journal of Business Ethics; Australian Accounting Review; Australian Journal of Management; and The International Journal of Accounting.