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Personal profile
Biography
Prerana is a Lecturer in Accounting at the UWA Business School. She is a Certified Practicing Accountant (Australia) and a qualified Chartered Accountant (India) with over 20 years of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience.
Prerana’s outstanding contribution to student learning and experience is demonstrated through her ongoing development of teaching tools, and consistently high student ratings for both unit structure and design. She is also the recipient of the UWA Business School Excellence in Teaching award and several student nominations over the years. Prerana completed her PhD in 2018 and since then has led numerous research projects in the fields of audit and audit (accounting) education. Prerana’s research is supported by external funding and has been published in high quality refereed journals. Her excellence in research was recognised and she was awarded the UWA Business School Early Career Research award in 2021. Prerana is also involved in various service roles at the Business School.
Future research
• Auditing: Auditor judgement and decision making
• Accounting Education: Student learning
• Accounting Education: Student learning
Previous positions
2007, Sessional tutor, Auditing, Curtin Business School
2007, Research Assistant, UWA
2006-2007, Fractional tutor, Auditing, Corporate Accounting, Taxation, UWA
2002-2003, Teacher, Accounting, Chanderbala Modi Academy, India
2001-2002, Guest Lecturer, Accounting, Financial Management, Company Law, Narmada College of Management, India
1998-2000, Teacher, Accounting, Chanderbala Modi Academy, India
1996-1997, Lecturer, Financial Management, Banking, Taxation, Pydah College, India
1991-1994, Audit trainee/Audit Senior, M/s Rajendra Manudhane and Co., India
2007, Research Assistant, UWA
2006-2007, Fractional tutor, Auditing, Corporate Accounting, Taxation, UWA
2002-2003, Teacher, Accounting, Chanderbala Modi Academy, India
2001-2002, Guest Lecturer, Accounting, Financial Management, Company Law, Narmada College of Management, India
1998-2000, Teacher, Accounting, Chanderbala Modi Academy, India
1996-1997, Lecturer, Financial Management, Banking, Taxation, Pydah College, India
1991-1994, Audit trainee/Audit Senior, M/s Rajendra Manudhane and Co., India
Current projects
- Not-for-Profit audit
- Development of soft skills in accounting students
- Sustainability reporting
- Ethics in accounting profession
Teaching overview
Undergraduate units: Auditing, Taxation, and Corporate Accounting
Postgraduate units: Principles of Auditing, and Intermediate Corporate Financial Reporting
Research
• Auditing
• Accounting Education
• Accounting Education
Languages
English and Hindi
Funding overview
2023 The IAAER-KPMG Research Grant to Inform the IASB standard setting process
2021 AFAANZ Research Grant to design a Professional Scepticism Toolkit for the development of the trait scepticism in accounting students
Education/Academic qualification
Auditing, Doctor of Philosophy, External auditors' reliance on management's experts: Evidence from Australia, The University of Western Australia
20 Feb 2013 → 6 Jun 2018
Award Date: 6 Jun 2018
Accounting and Finance, Master of Accounting, SEOs: Market reaction to intended use of proceeds disclosure, The University of Western Australia
2007 → 5 Jul 2010
Award Date: 14 Sept 2010
Research expertise keywords
- Auditor Judgment And Decision Making
- Accounting Education
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Relational Contracting Theory and Internal Audit: Chief Audit Executives' Perspectives on Creating and Strengthening Trust by Building Credibility and Clarity
Vafaei, E., Singh, H., Scully, G., Gilchrist, D. & Agrawal, P., 26 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Auditing.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Accounting for crypto-assets: Stakeholders' perceptions
Chou, J. H., Agrawal, P. & Birt, J., 22 Apr 2022, In: Studies in Economics and Finance. 39, 3, p. 471-489 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Audit Research in Australian Charitable Organisations: A Review of Literature
Gilchrist, D., Agrawal, P., Das, A. & Wen, H., 18 Nov 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera › peer-review
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Best practices for group assessment tasks
Bayne, L., Birt, J., Hancock, P., Schonfeldt, N. & Agrawal, P., Jun 2022, In: Journal of Accounting Education. 59, 100770.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
The use of case studies in developing students' understanding of the concept ‘material misstatement'
Agrawal, P., Birt, J., Bayne, L. & Schonfeldt, N., Apr 2022, In: Accounting & Finance. 62, S1, p. 1307-1338 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Professional scepticism toolkit
Agrawal, P., Holub, M. & Van Zyl, W.
Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand
15/07/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
Prizes
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UWA Business School Excellence in Teaching Award
Agrawal, Prerana (Recipient), 24 Mar 2009
Prize: Award