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Get practical industry experience
During your degree, you’ll have the opportunity to undertake ‘Work Integrated Learning’ (WIL). It’s a program built into every Flinders business course. Students can choose a hands-on work placement from over 200 industry hosts, including Big Four accounting firms, internationally recognised FMCG brands, banking and finance institutions, as well as South Australian government departments (both state and local).
You might have heard of some of our key partners: Price Water House Coopers, McDonalds, Bank SA, EY, Hudson, BT and Bendigo Bank.
Learn from the best
Flinders is the top-ranked business school in South Australia. And that’s partly down to our staff. Flinders business academics are regarded as leaders in their field, both in Australia and around the world. If you want to be the best, you need to learn from the best.
Professor John Spoehr is Director of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute at Flinders University.
Professor Spoehr has over 25 years’ experience as a social and economic researcher, and currently leads a multi-disciplinary team focusing on industry and workplace transformation in the context of technological change and innovation.
Professor Spoehr has found a new ‘home’ at Flinders at Tonsley campus, the $120 million advanced technology and research building that offers a new direction for engineering, business and work in the 21st century. This campus has become the home of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, created by Professor Spoehr to build bridges between disciplines and identify new frameworks for industrial development.
Dr Thanh Le is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Flinders Business.
Dr Thanh Le joined Flinders Business in 2016 from School of Economics at The University of Queensland. His research areas include:
- economic theory
- macroeconomic theory
- applied economics
- applied macroeconomics
- economic development and growth
- time-series analysis and forecasting
Dr Ashokkumar Manoharan is a Lecturer at Flinders Business.
Dr Manoharan has an interdisciplinary background. He completed his PhD from University of South Australia in 2015. He was awarded Australia Postgraduate Award (APA) scholarship from Australian Commonwealth Government and Top Up scholarship from University of South Australia. His thesis explored the relationship between organisational culture, diversity management and organisational effectiveness in the context of Australian hotels.
Dr Manoharan has valuable overseas experience in teaching, training and consultancy . He has taught various management courses (Strategic Management, People Organisation and Leadership, Research for Business Decision Making) at postgraduate and undergraduate level in Australia and India. He also has an extensive industry experience in training call centre employees in Australia and providing consultancy for hospitality firms.
Dr Philip Palmer has completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) with Honours and a PhD in Accounting.
He has served as first year coordinator and coordinator of the Accounting and Finance Undergraduate and Masters programs at Flinders. He has written a number of journal articles, conference papers and presentations as well as supervising a number of PhD students.
Dr Palmer has extensive finance industry experience, having worked in a bank for 14 years and as a commercial banking analyst for much of this time before joining Flinders, giving him an in-depth industry understanding.
Dr Palmer’s research interests are financial reporting in not for profit entities, international accounting standards and Financial Reporting more generally.
Graduate success stories
Top honours for Flinders accounting graduates
Two Flinders accounting graduates have achieved top honours in Australian accounting. Marithe Solis (right) was named Accounting Student of the Year and Caitie Copley Rising (left) Star of the Year at the Australian Accounting Awards 2018. Both award winners hold Bachelor of Commerce (Advanced Leadership and Accounting/Finance) degrees.
Latest research
Working lives set to be transformed
Professor John Spoehr's research shows about 40% of work tasks are likely to change in next decade.
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When are apps worth paying for?
Dr Lara Stocchi has led a project examining the factors that make one app succeed over another.
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Solving the resources curse
Dr Thanh Le is examining why developing countries with the most resources are often the poorest.
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