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Dr Wen Hua Sharpe

PhD in Accounting Deakin University, Master of Commerce Deakin University, Bachelor of Commerce (with Honours) Deakin University, Bachelor of Business RMIT University

  • Lecturer in Accounting
  • School of Business and Creative Industries
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+61 7 5456 3194
Office location
MB-MBA-1-1.45B
Campus
Moreton Bay
Wen Hua Sharpe

Dr Wen Hua Sharpe is a Lecturer of Accounting in the School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast. Prior to joining UniSC, Wen Hua worked as a Lecturer in Accounting at Federation University, as well as a company auditor prior to becoming an academic. Her research interests are in the areas of auditing, capital structure, corporate governance, and business strategy. She teaches courses in auditing, financial accounting, management accounting, and corporate reporting.

Professional memberships

  • Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)
  • American Accounting Association (AAA)
  • European Accounting Association (EAA)
  • Member of CPA Australia

Research grants

Project name Investigators Funding body Year Focus of research

What factors influence where Chinese students choose to study? A PESTEL study

Wen Hua Sharpe

$4,650

2021

Cross-school research grant, involved as a leader for research project

Firm executives external strategy communications

Wen Hua Sharpe

$10,400

2020

Industry and other funding

 

Research areas

  • auditing
  • corporate finance
  • governance

Teaching areas

Recent publications

  • Wen Hua Sharpe, Peter Carey, and Hong Feng Zhang (2023). Being private, Big 4 auditors, and debt raising. Accounting and Finance, 63, 2295 –2345. https://doi.org/10.1111/acfi.12969
  • Merryn Paynter, Wen Hua Sharpe, Abdel K. Halabic, Vaughan Reimers, Hongming Ma, and Carolyn Johnstone (2023). Chinese students’ decisions to study in Australia after the COVID pandemic--based on the PESTLE factor analysis. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. Forthcoming.

Wen's research interests are in the areas of auditing, capital structure, corporate governance and business strategy.

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