School of Accounting and Finance

Prior to joining Charles Sturt University (CSU) in July 2004 Warwick was employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers as an Audit Manager in the Technology, Information, Communication and Entertainment industry group. He is a Chartered Accountant with extensive practical experience and completed a Masters of Commerce at CSU in 2006. Warwick currently teaches subjects across all three years of the undergraduate degree. He is the subject convenor for ACC100 Accounting 1, one of the Faculty’s largest subjects by enrolment.

Teaching and Research

Research Focus

• Public sector accountability and accounting education

Teaching Responsibilities

• ACC100 Accounting 1
• ACC110 Accounting 2
• ACC222 External Reporting
• ACC331 Auditing and Assurance Services

Administrative Responsibilities

• Elected representative on School of Accounting and Computer Science's Assessment Committee Elected
• representative on the Faculty of Business' Accounting Board of Studies
• Subject convenor ACC100 Accounting 1
• Subject convenor ACC331 Auditing and Assurance Services

Professional Activities

Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICCA) and Bathurst campus representative

Grants and Awards

2006

• Joint recipient with Kay Plummer of a $2,000 Faculty of Business Scholarship in Teaching Fund grant to develop pod casts for first year accounting students and to research their effectiveness

2007

• Joint recipient (with Ken Crofts, Carole Hunter and Lyn Flynn) of a $2,000 Faculty of Business Scholarship in Teaching Fund grant to develop on-screen action capture tutorials and other technologies and to research their effectiveness
• Joint recipient with Kay Plummer of a $3,000 Faculty of Business seed grant for research into the learning modalities of undergraduate students
• Joint recipient of 2007 Faculty of Business Group Teaching Award

Selected Publications

Refereed Conference Proceedings

2005

• Charles Sturt University Learning and Teaching Conference, Bathurst 28-29 September: Developing a distance education package: reflections on a process. Warwick Baines, Chrisann Lee, Nicholas Pawsey and Kay Plummer

2006

• 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Business, Leura September: The appeal of school based financial management in contrasting public education systems.
• CPA Accounting Educators Forum, Sydney November: Enhancing flexible delivery in accounting:Using MP3 files to deliver content and improve student distance education experience. Kay Plummer, Warwick Baines and Nicholas Davis

2007

• 47th Annual Conference for Accounting and Finance Association, Australia and New Zealand, (AFAANZ) Common ground across the divide: Financial management policies of schools in contrasting public education systems

Working Papers

• 10/06The appeal of school based financial management in contrasting public education systems
• 04/07Common ground across the divide: Financial management policies of schools in contrasting public education systems