Associate Professor Andrew Jackson

My Expertise

Financial Accounting; Financial Statement Analysis; Valuation

Keywords

accounting

financial analysis

corporate financial reporting

financial market uncertainty

stock return volatility

asset pricing

Fields of Research (FoR)

Accounting, auditing and accountability, Financial accounting, Accounting theory and standards, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, Financial Accounting, Accounting Theory and Standards

Biography

Andrew joined the school in July 2005 and was appointed Associate Professor in 2019. He was also awarded a Scientia Fellowship in 2019. Andrew teaches postgraduate financial accounting and financial statement analysis. Prior to his appointment at UNSW, Andrew taught at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Andrew primarily researchers in financial accounting and financial statement analysis. His research focuses on earnings...view more

Andrew primarily researchers in financial accounting and financial statement analysis. His research focuses on earnings co-movements and decomposing earnings into market, industry and firm idiosyncratic components. This research has the potential to improve the understanding of the sources of earnings and the degree to which firm’s earnings are related to industry peers. Through his research, Andrew aims to lead to improvements in decision making by users of financial statements, such as improving the ability to forecast future earnings and value assets. He is also interested in how accounting information is used by capital market participants, including issues on earnings co-movements, corporate disclosure, stock return volatility, the timeliness of earnings and asset pricing models. His paper, 'Pierpont and the Capital Market' was awarded a joint share of the Abacus 2009 Manuscript Award.

Andrew is the Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Management. He is also President (Australia) of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). He was also a member of the Group of 8 Taskforce for the "COVID-19 Roadmap to Recovery: A Report for the Nation".

UNSW Business School profile: https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/our-people/andrewjackson

My Grants

2021-23: ARC Discovery Grant (DP210101354): Financial performance, uncertainty and corporate investment decisions (AU$223,915), with Stephen Taylor, Yaowen Shan and Jere Francis
2019: UNSW Business School Special Research Grant, with Shane Dikolli and Marlene Plumlee
2011: AFAANZ Research Grant, with Jeff Coulton and Tami Dinh Thi
2009: AFAANZ PhD Scholarship

My Qualifications

PhD, University of New South Wales, 2010
MCA, Victoria University of Wellington, 2004
BCA, Victoria University of Wellington, 2002
AMusTCL, Trinity College London, 1998

My Awards

2018 UNSW Business School Research Achievement Award
2009 ABACUS Manuscript Award

My Research Activities

My area of specialty is in financial statement analysis and financial accounting. I developed a method for disaggregating a firm's earnings to quantify the components that are attributable to market-wide information, industry information, and firm idiosyncratic earnings. I use this disaggregation technique to re-investigate issues to further our understanding of the role of information transfers, relaxing the assumption that a firm's financial statements arise from an informational vacuum. The ability to quantify the firm idiosyncratic component of earnings also enables further investigation of decisions made by corporate managers.

Through research, teaching and the supervision of research students, it is my aim to address the role that accounting plays in informing capital market participants.