Dr Paul Thambar is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Accounting, Monash Business School and has a broad range of research interests in management accounting, performance measurement, management control systems and practices and strategizing in a range of organizations including cooperatives and mutuals, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and commercial organizations.

Paul has peer-reviewed publications in academic journals (Accounting Organisations and Society-AOS, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal-AAAJ) and a number of working papers targeted at top tier journals. Paul has brought in external research income ($648,000) in the past 3 years including the largest Category 3 industry grant ($598,000) received by the Department of Accounting for a 2 year study, Mutual Value Measurement (MVM) in cooperatives and mutual enterprises (CMEs). Paul teaches management accounting units in the Master of Accounting and Master of Professional Accounting programs and has previously taught in the Monash MBA program.

management accounting, management control systems and practices, strategizing, performance management systems, accountability.

theories used include reource dependence, institutional logics, sensemaking and framing

Case study and field research in CMEs, NGOs and commercial organizations

ACF 5350 Applied Contemporary Accounting

ACF5510 Integrated Accounting

ACX4090 Issues in Management Accounting (Honours)

Regional Board Chair and member, CIMA (2007-2012)

Supervision

Able to supervise PhD students in topics related to management accounting, performance measurement, management control systems and practices