Photo of Associate Professor Jayne Bisman Associate Professor Jayne Bisman

BBus (with Distinction) MitchellCAE, MEc NE, PhD CSturt, FCA, FCPA

Jayne has a Bachelor of Business degree with a major in accounting and a sub-major in law, a Master of Economics degree majoring in accounting and financial management, and a PhD by thesis in accounting. She is a Fellow (FCPA) of CPA Australia and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (FCA), with over 27 years of experience teaching accounting at universities. Her primary research interests focus on accounting and accountability in both historical and contemporary contexts in the public sector. Jayne received the Academy of Accounting Historians (USA) Innovation in Accounting History Education Award 2009, Best Paper Award Asian Review of Accounting 2010, CSU Faculty of Business Award for Academic Excellence (Research Excellence) 2009, CSU Faculty of Business Team Teaching Excellence Award 2007, and CSU Faculty of Commerce Research Excellence Award 2002.

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Teaching Responsibilities

Jayne currently teaches research methods, in DBA711 Research Issues, for students in the Doctor of Business Administration program. She also supervises a significant cohort of doctoral and other research students:

Current Research Students
  • Baines, W., Financial management in public schools, PhD
  • Crofts. K., Accountability of faith-based human services not-for-profit organisations, PhD
  • Davis, N., Explaining changes to the annual reports of an Australian Commonwealth Department 1941-1998, PhD
  • Goela, N., Accounting and financial management for migrant small businesses in Australia, PhD
  • Highfield, C., Organisational justice issues in public accounting firms in rural and regional Australia, PhD
  • Hofer, S., Outsourcing in hospitals, DBA
  • King, K., Accounting controls and misconduct in fire services, BBus(Hons)
  • Pawsey, N., IFRS adoption: Costs and benefits for Top 400 ASX Listed Australian companies, PhD
  • Sanders, D., Outsourcing in the telecommunications industry, PhD

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Research

Research Focus
  • Accounting and accountability in the public sector
  • Accounting history
  • Accounting education
  • Research methods in accounting

Jayne has published in an array of journals (see 'Publications' tab), is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals in accounting and finance, is Associate Editor of the highly ranked journal Accounting History, and has acted as a referee for a host of Australian, UK, USA, and NZ journals. She has been the Technical Program Coordinator for the Accounting History International Conferences, Convenor of the Accounting History Special Interest Group (AHSIG) of AFAANZ, and Convenor of the annual Accounting History Symposia. At Charles Sturt University, Jayne is the Accounting Discipline Leader on the Faculty of Business Research and Higher Degrees (Research) Committee, and usually chairs the School's Research Committee and the School's Ethics in Human Research Committee.

Research Project Supervision
  • Public sector accounting and accountability
  • Accounting history
  • Accounting and outsourcing

Jayne has supervised numerous Master's and Doctoral research students to successful completion and has examined theses for a range of Australian and overseas universities.

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Selected Publications

  • Bisman, J.E. (forthcoming). Giving voice to the ‘local’ in accounting and accountability for Australian local government outsourcing decisions: A retrospective, Australian Journal of Public Administration.
  • Bisman, J.E. (forthcoming). Review - "Bread and Ale for the Brethren: The Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, 1260-1536", Accounting History Review.
  • Bisman, J.E. (forthcoming). Review - "Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720",  Accounting History.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2012). Budgeting for famine in Tudor England: Social and policy perspectives, Accounting History Review, Vol.22, No.2, pp.105-126.
  • Highfield, C. & Bisman, J.E. (2012). The road less travelled: an overview and example of constructivist research in accounting. Australasian Accounting Business & Finance Journal, Vol.6, No.5, pp.3-22.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2012). Surveying the landscape: The first 15 years of Accounting History as an international journal, Accounting History, Vol.17, No.1, pp.5-34.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2011). Old fossils and accounting history, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol.24, No.7, p.935.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2011). Review - "Accounting Education and the Profession in New Zealand: Profiles of the Pioneering Academics and the Early University Accounting Departments 1900-1970",  Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, Vol.7, No.2, pp.199-201.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2011). Cite and seek: Exploring accounting history through citation analysis of the specialist accounting history journals, 1996 to 2008, Accounting History, Vol.16, No.2, pp.161-183.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2011). Engaged pedagogy: A study of the use of reflective journals in accounting education, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol.36, No.3, pp.315-330.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2010). Postpositivism and accounting research: A (personal) primer on critical realism, Australasian Accounting, Business & Finance Journal, Vol.4, No.4, pp.3-25.
  • Bisman, J.E. and Goela, N. (2010). The Small Industries Development Bank of India: A retrospective on SME financing, Indian Journal of Economics and Business, Vol.9, No.4, pp.803-820.
  • Crofts, K. and Bisman, J.E. (2010). Interrogating accountability: An illustration of the use of Leximancer software for qualitative data analysis, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Vol.7, No.2, pp.180-207.
  • Palm, C. & Bisman, J.E. (2010). Benchmarking introductory accounting curricula: Experience from Australia, Accounting Education: An International Journal, Vol.19, No.1&2, pp. 179-210.
  • Bisman, J.E. & Liao, W. (2009). Making the mainstream: An analysis of the scholarly literature on accounting in China, 1999-2008, Asian Review of Accounting, Vol.17, No.3, pp.180-197. [Awarded Best Paper].
  • Bisman, J.E. (2009). The census as accounting artefact: A research note with illustrations from the early Australian colonial period, Accounting History, Vol. 14, No. 3, 293-314.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2009). Review - "Wisdom from the podium: A history of the CPA Australia - University of Melbourne annual research lecture", Accounting History, Vol.14, No.3, 321-323.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2009). Making accounting historians, Accounting Historians Journal, Vol.36, No.1, 135-162. [Awarded Academy of Accounting Historians Innovation in Accounting History Education Award].
  • Bisman, J.E. (2008). Australian public sector outsourcing in the 'golden era': Cost savings evidence or anecdote? Australian Accounting Review, Vol.18, No.2, 108-122.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2007). Accounting concepts in the construction of social status and privilege: A microhistorical study of an early Australian convict, Australasian Accounting, Business & Finance Journal, Vol.1, No.4, 1-15.
  • Bisman, J.E., Demartini, P., Dimitric, M., Goela, N., Hagigi, M., Mosnja-Skare, L., Palazzi, E., Sivakumar, K. & Wu, E. (2007). Accounting for SMEs: Multidimensional Aspects and Global Challenges, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2007). Small enterprise advisors: A model for industry-relevant education, The Norwegian Association of Authorised Accountants (NARF), Oslo, Norway.
  • Goela, N. & Bisman, J.E. (2007). Development bank finance in India and the regional development agenda, Finance India, Vol. 21, No.3, 907-921.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2007). Educating accountants to act as small business advisors: A ten-year perspective, in Accounting for SMEs: Multidimensional Aspects and Global Challenges, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia, pp.57-84.
  • Goela, N. & Bisman, J.E. (2007). Researching accounting in small business: A critique of research methods and methodology, in Accounting for SMEs: Multidimensional Aspects and Global Challenges, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia, pp.103-123.
  • Bisman, J.E. (2005). Beneath the 'Beyond Beancounting' reports: Research, professional practice and politics in the public sector, Accounting, Accountability & Performance, Vol.11, No.1, 25-48.
  • Goela, N. & Bisman, J.E. (2004). A model and research agenda for lease decision making, Indonesian Management & Accounting Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, 469-492.
  • Fatseas, V.A., Bisman, J.E. & Williams, J.F. (2004), Management Accounting for Costing and Control, 2nd edn. McGraw-Hill, Sydney.
  • Fatseas, V.A., Bisman, J.E. & Williams, J.F. (2001), Management Accounting for Decision Making, McGraw-Hill, Sydney.
  • Bisman, J.E. (1999), Costing for Outsourcing Decisions: Public Sector Perspectives, Management Accounting Centre of Excellence, Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, Melbourne.

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