Luisa Unda

Luisa Unda is a Lecturer in the Department of Accounting. 

Luisa joined the Department of Accounting at Monash University in January 2016, after completing her PhD from La Trobe University. Her main research interests are corporate governance, board structure and its association to performance, board effectiveness in member-owned institutions, board committees, financial reporting quality, and accounting education. Luisa's current goal is to contribute to the scarce analysis of the role of the board of directors in financial cooperatives, such as credit unions.

Learn more about my research on credit union board governance here.

Luisa's teaching experience includes conducting lectures and tutorials in financial accounting and auditing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as, facilitating accounting and business ethics based workshops to high-school students.

Prior to becoming and academic, Luisa worked as a financial analyst in the banking industry and gained practice based experience surrounding matters such as financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and risk management.

ACF5950 Introductory Accounting

ACC5903 Accounting for Business

Teaching Excellence:

- 2016 Department of Accounting's Teaching Award

- 2016 Monash Business School's Commendation

• ECR Representative (Financial Accounting & Auditing) at the Department of Accounting Research Committee (2016-2018).
• International Member of the Centre for Not-for-profit and Public-sector Research (CNPR) at Queen's Management School, Belfast.