Prof Louise Lu

PhD (ANU), BCom (Hons) (ANU), CPA

Louise Lu is a Professor of Accounting. Her research interests are in financial accounting, corporate social responsibility and corporate finance. Louise has previously investigated financial statement comparability, corporate social responsibility, voluntary disclosures, tax avoidance, the value of cash holdings, and stock price crash risks. Her work has been published in leading academic journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organisations and Society, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Corporate Finance, European Accounting Review, The British Accounting Review, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Business Ethics and Accounting and Finance.

Louise is a Convenor of HDR in Research School of Accounting and a Co-Director of the Australian National Centre for Audit & Assurance Research (ANCAAR).

Louise is an editorial board member and serves as a Deputy Editor of Accounting and Finance and an Associate Editor of Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics and Emerging Markets Review.

Louise is also a founder and a convenor of the Early Career Researchers Support Network (ECRSN), a network that aims to help early-career researchers including Ph.D. students to improve their social wellbeing and academic performance. https://www.ecrsn.com/