Corporate governance and boardroom accountability: lessons from the top

Remarkably little is known about what goes on in the top-floor inner sanctums of private, public and non-profit sector boardrooms. Yet they have a profound impact on corporate performance and accountability. Lee Parker's presentation gives us a fly-on-the-wall insight into corporate governance based on his own board-level research and drawing on latest international research and practice. What are a director's role and responsibilities for strategic management, organisational control and internal boardroom governance? Lee examines all the processes, highlighting implications for future practice in boardroom corporate governance.

Professor Lee Parker
Lee is Professor of Accounting at UniSA's School of Commerce, and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Previous positions include the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffith, Flinders and Adelaide with visiting professorships in the UK, USA, NZ, Singapore and Kuwait. He's published over 150 articles and books internationally, was joint founding editor of the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and currently serves on over 20 editorial boards. He is past-President of the Academy of Accounting Historians (USA), the American Accounting Association Public Interest section and CPA Australia (SA); past-Vice-President International of the American Accounting Association; and past-Deputy President of AIM (SA).