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.