Jack Flanagan

Profile summary
Foundation Professor of Accounting, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney

Jack Flanagan has taught Accounting and Financial Management in the MBA (Executive) course for the last 11 years, and is responsible for some of the content that you will cover. His teaching interests include financial accounting, accounting theory, financial management and ethical decision-making.

Jack has been in his present position since January 1996. Prior to that he was Associate Professor of Accounting and Head, Department of Accounting & Finance, University of Western Sydney, Nepean.

His research interests include the analysis of corporate performance, ethical decision-making in organisations, problem-based learning, and the impact of technology on student learning. His research work has been published in academic and professional journals.

Jack is a co-author of widely-adopted financial management text, Principles of Managerial Finance, published by Pearson (4th Edition, 2005) and an undergraduate accounting text Accounting: Information for Decisions, published by Thomson Learning (1st Edition 2004), and he has also completed a book on Planning for Retirement, co-authored with his wife.

He has worked within or around accounting and finance for all of his professional career. He has worked in large companies and small. He has worked in project analysis (with Shell), as a company secretary (with Sample Industries), and as a tax specialist (in private practice), as well as spending 28 years as an academic.
He has been a consultant to the Australian Accounting Standards Review Board on approved accounting standards. He wrote the original curriculum for the Treasury specialisation in the CPA programme. He has presented seminars over many years for the professional accounting bodies in Australia, and a range of leading companies. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Manchester, Tokyo Kaizai University, Japan and Al Akhawayn University, Morocco.

Jack is a fellow of CPA Australia, and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. He is a director of two companies in the health care industry.

Jack is married with four children, a dog and two cats. His recreational interests include jogging (he advises that he can’t call it running any longer), reading, and travel.

Qualifications
Jack is a graduate of the universities of Leeds, Sydney, and Surrey. He has studied for an MBA on a part-time basis so is familiar with the pressures part-time MBA students are under, your expectations and the problems you are likely to encounter.

Email
jack.flanagan@agsm.edu.au