Michael Turner

Dr Michael Turner PhD, CA Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Program Convenor, Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours)

Dr Michael Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) at The University of Queensland Business School. A Chartered Accountant, his work connects accounting education, educational leadership, industry engagement and applied research. Across these areas, he focuses on how accounting information and systems can support better strategic, ethical and climate-related decisions.

Michael coordinates management accounting courses and develops authentic, analytics-enabled teaching cases using Python, R, advanced Excel, regression and simulation to strengthen students’ professional judgement under uncertainty. Three of his cases have been published in Issues in Accounting Education, an ABDC A-ranked journal. He also supports Course Coordinators with curriculum, assessment and quality assurance and serves as an Annual Performance and Development mentor.

As BAdvBus(Hons) Program Convenor since June 2023, Michael leads a four-year program comprising more than 700 students. He led its Academic Program Review from evidence gathering and stakeholder consultation through Faculty approval and is now leading implementation of the approved reforms. This includes staged development of an eight-course BAdvBus(Hons)-exclusive first year, comprising six new courses and two existing exclusive courses, together with continuing work on curriculum coherence, authentic professional experiences, program identity and evidence of student and program outcomes. The role requires academic leadership and coordination across disciplines, Major and Course Convenors, Learning Design, Work Integrated Learning and Student Administration.

Michael has also developed and manages a growing portfolio of strategic relationships with employers and professional bodies, translating those relationships into authentic learning, professional development, networking and recruitment opportunities for Advanced Business students. He established Careers Connect, the program’s flagship employer-networking event, which brought together more than 150 students, 18 firms and approximately 25 academics in 2025, with 21 organisations confirmed for the 2026 event. During 2026, he also led BAdvBus(Hons)-exclusive activities with CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, Monitor Deloitte, Grant Thornton, Suncorp and RSM. He received the 2025 UQ Business School Executive Committee Award for Excellence in External Engagement for this work.

Michael’s research examines strategic management accounting, corporate and climate-related disclosure, ethical decision-making and governance, and accounting education. He has published 29 peer-reviewed articles, including work in leading ABDC A*/A outlets, and has contributed to 13 funded projects. His research has received support from Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, the German Research Foundation and the Office of the Australian Accounting Standards Board. As a Core Co-Investigator on the AASB climate-related financial-disclosures project, he contributes to research design, instrument development and project coordination. The project’s Phase 1 report established a national baseline and a 56-item framework for monitoring corporate disclosure and behaviour. His applied work has also appeared in Strategic Finance, HospitalityNet and the Council on Business & Society.

Research interests

• Strategic management accounting and decision analytics
• Corporate and climate-related disclosure
• Ethical decision-making, governance and whistleblowing
• Accounting education, authentic assessment, data analytics and programming with Python and R