Dr Jeff Coulton

Senior Lecturer, Media & External Relations Co-ordinator

School of Accounting - PhD, UNSW | BEc (Hons I) | LLB University of Sydney | Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW

About Jeff

Dr Jeff Coulton is a Senior Lecturer in the UNSW Business School and has held a visiting appointment at the University of Texas at Austin. His main current research interests focus on the way in which financial statement information as well as other information impact on the capital market. He is also actively involved in research which examines the technical and economic feasibility of space exploration and resource utilisation in space. He has published widely in international and local journals, and is a co-author on the leading financial statement analysis textbook used in Australian universities.

Jeff is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and a former corporate lawyer at Corrs Chambers Westgarth. He has designed and delivered Executive Education programs to numerous public and private sector organisations, and has appeared as an expert witness in cases involving accounting and stock market issues in the Federal Court of Australia and the NSW Supreme Court.

Jeff has been teaching the Financial Statement Analysis course in the full-time AGSM MBA course for 10 years and is also teaching on the Accounting and Financial Management course in the MBA programs. He is a co-author on the leading financial statement analysis textbook for Australia and New Zealand universities. He has also been providing Executive Education courses to public and private sector organisations.

Teaching and Supervision

Current Courses Taught

• ACCT3610 Business Analysis and Valuation
• AGSM9138 Financial Analysis
• AGSM6210 Accounting and Financial Management

Grants

• 2014 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia Research Grant – Investigating Mechanisms for the Provision of Pro-Bono Professional Services by Accountants across Australia and New Zealand
• $8,934.88 (with Kevin Clarke) 2012 CIFR Research Grant - Non-GAAP Reporting: Causes, Consequences and Lessons for Financial Reporting Regulators
• $150,000 (over 2012-2014) with Yaowen Shan, Mark Soliman, Stephen Taylor. 
• 2011 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Grant 
• $7,452 (Booms, Busts and Sentiment) with Tami Dinh Thi and Andrew Jackson 2009 Australian School of Business Special Research Grant (as mentor with Rui Ding) (Earnings Management and the Accuracy of Analysts Cash Flow Forecasts) 
• $7,407 2008 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Grant
• $7,500 (Is there a dividend ‘run-up effect’ for Australian equities?) with Andrew Ferguson 2007 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Grant
• $7,430 (The Relation Between Nonaudit Services & Financial Reporting Quality at the Partner Level) with Caitlin Ruddock 2007 UNSW Special Research Grant
• $5,000 (The Relation Between Nonaudit Services & Financial Reporting Quality at the Partner Level) with Caitlin Ruddock 2006-2008 Capital Markets CRC
• $380,440 - Accounting and Audit Surveillance

Engagement

Media Release

• AGSM MBA Students provide Youth Off the Streets with Roadmap for the Future
• Investors should be careful when companies don’t use standard metrics
• Big Australian businesses are investing regardless of tax cuts

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