Interests

Research

• Knowledge transfer within accounting organisations. How do accountants keep up-to-date with changes in accounting regulation? How does information flow efficiently and effectively through an accounting firm.
• Indigenous issues, including improving indigenous business models, involvement of indigenous people with a business environment and the use of accounting numbers within indigenous culture. Western concepts of separation of the individual and the business run contrary to indigenous cultural mores. It would be interesting to find where the nexus of the two is placed, if it exists at all.
• Primary industry, especially in the area of constraints on primary industry from government regulation and the environment and how that impacts upon the bottom line.
• The use of accounting numbers as a form of rhetoric. Accounting numbers are believed to be neutral and unbiased; however how they are collated can be subjective.
• Applied research – I have experience in case study work, qualitative research and working within a business environment.

Teaching

• I am interested in the use of technology within the learning environment to improve student outcomes. I consider it important to integrate practical experiences and accounting/auditing concepts with critical thinking capabilities to create the all round accounting graduate.

Research Disciplines

• Accounting, auditing and accountability (3501)
• Applied economics (3801)

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Journal Articles

• Nandan R and Ciccotosto S (2014) Networks in knowledge-intensive industry: the case of a regional accountants' network. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, 10 (1), pp. 2-21, DOI:10.1108/JAOC-01-2012-0008.
• Ciccotosto S, Pryce J, Chaiechi T, Hamilton J and Loban H (2013) Focusing on people, communities and commerce: interdisciplinary research as a multiple lens. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 12 (1), pp. 42-51.
• Wadeson D and Ciccotosto S (2013) Succession planning in small accounting practices in regional Far North Queensland. Australian Accounting Review, 23 (2), pp. 177-188, DOI:10.1111/j.1835-2561.2012.00189.x.
• Loban H, Ciccotosto S, Chaiechi T, Pryce J and Hamilton J (2012) Torres Strait fisheries in a global context. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8 (2), pp. 20-23.

Book Chapters

• Chaiechi T, Pryce J, Ciccotosto S and Billa L (2020) State-wide effects of natural disasters on the labor market. In: Economic Effects of Natural Disasters: theoretical foundations, methods, and tools. Elsevier, London, UK, pp. 211-224

Conference Papers

• Wadeson D, Durden C and Ciccotosto S (2019) The relationship between public practice accountants and community in a remote and rural environment. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Accounting and Finance. In: AF 2019: 9th International Conference on Accounting and Finance, 15-16 July 2019, Singapore
• O'Connell B, Ciccotosto S and De Lange P (2014) Understanding the application of Actor-Network Theory in the process of accounting change. Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference. 7-9 July 2014, Toronto, Canada
• Pryce J, Chaiechi T, Ciccotosto S and Loban H (2014) Use of photo-elicitation to gain insights into the nature of self-managed teams in the academic world. Proceedings of the ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference. 7-10 December 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Chaiechi T, Ciccotosto S, Hamilton J, Loban H and Pryce J (2012) What shadows will sovereign debt cast across the decade? Proceedings of the 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference On Business. 24-27 May 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Hamilton J, Chaiechi T, Ciccotosto S, Loban H and Pryce J (2012) Deploying tourism destination intelligences. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference On Business. 24-27 May 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii
• O'Connell B, Ciccotosto S and De Lange P (2011) Actor-Network Theory's contribution to the accounting literature: a critical appraisal. Proceeding of Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference. 10-12 July 2011, Clearwater Beach, FL, USA
• O'Connell B, Ciccotosto S and de Lange P (2009) Latour's contribution to the accounting literature through actor-network theory: a critical appraisal. Proceedings of the 2009 AFAANZ Conference. In: 2009 AFAANZ Conference, 5-7 July 2009, Adelaide, SA, Australia

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 20+ research outputs authored by Dr Sue Ciccotosto from 2005 onwards.

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Current

• Comparative corporate governance ; A case study of religious institutions and legal entrepreneurism - regulatory problems and suggested reforms (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Accounting and accountability in NGOs: Exploring the stakeholder experience (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)