Nikki Schonfeldt

Mrs Nikki Schonfeldt is a lecturer at the UWA Business School teaching financial accounting units across undergraduate and postgraduate programs. She is a Chartered Accountant (member of CAANZ) with over thirteen years of experience as a university lecturer. Nikki has a keen interest in Accounting Education and has been involved in the development of new teaching material and other teaching initiatives on various technology platforms. Nikki has, successfully, developed fully online units in Accounting on the UWA MBA and MPA programs.

2018-2019: Accounting & Finance Association of Australia & New Zealand (AFAANZ) The effectiveness of teamwork assessment tasks

2015-2016: UWA Centre for Education Futures' Scholarship

2002-2004: US$1,000,000. Grant from the Carnegie Corporation to fund the project and to develop multimedia teaching material for a strategic partnership between the University of Johannesburg and the University of Fort Hare (South Africa). Role: Project manager for the strategic initiative

2012-2014: Part time Lecturer and Tutor, University of Western Australia
2007-2013: Translator and Reviewer, Accounting Professional Training and the University of Johannesburg
2008-2012: Research Assistant in Doctoral studies, University of Johannesburg
2007-2008: Consultant – Management Information, University of Johannesburg
2001-2005: Senior Lecturer, University of Johannesburg
Project Manager: Thuthuka project (2002-2004)
1998-2000: PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., South Africa

Demystifying consolidated financial statements: mastering threshold concepts utilising adaptive learning. PhD-project. Supervisors: Prof Phil Hancock, Prof Jac Birt, UWA FABLE, Australia.

The effectiveness of teamwork assessment tasks with Prof Jac Birt, Dr Lyndie Bayne and Dr Prerana Agrawal, UWA Business School, Accounting and Finance, Australia, funded by AFAANZ

Underpinning Concepts of Auditing: A study of Connotative Meaning with Prof Jac Birt, Dr Lyndie Bayne and Dr Prerana Agrawal, UWA Business School, Accounting and Finance, Australia.

Developed fully online Accounting units offered on the UWA MBA and MPA programs, which is often used to inform the design of other online or blended units.

Involved in the successful launching of various groundbreaking projects including UWA MyGuru online tutor platform and the UJ-UFH strategic partnership

Established an undergraduate auditing textbook (Editor and Author)

Teaching in Accounting, Auditing & Financial Management (Undergraduate) and Accounting, Financial Management & Accounting Information Systems (Postgraduate)

Developed multimodal study material for Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Management courses

Financial Accounting

Accounting Education

Adaptive learning

Threshold Concepts

Operational Risk Management in Financial Institutions