Victoria Clout

Dr Victoria Clout is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation within the University of New South Wales Business School. She holds a PhD in Accounting from Queensland University of Technology (2007) and a Bachelor of Business with First Class Honours in Accounting from the same institution (2002). Her academic career spans over 15 years with continuous teaching and research contributions at UNSW.

Her research focuses on corporate governance, financial accounting, and corporate finance, specifically examining executive decisions regarding accounting information and disclosures relied upon by capital markets. Clout's work investigates how managerial choices impact financial statement transparency, with implications for investors, regulators, and the accounting industry. She employs empirical methods to analyze earnings management, board monitoring effectiveness, and disclosure quality in capital markets.

Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals consistent research trajectories in three interconnected areas: (1) earnings management practices particularly through Other Comprehensive Income recycling, (2) corporate governance mechanisms including board composition and monitoring effectiveness, and (3) capital market responses to accounting disclosures. Her work frequently employs large-scale archival datasets with cross-country comparisons between Australian and US markets.

• UNSW Higher Education Heroes Award (2020)
• UNSW Business School Values in Action Award (2020)
• Best Paper Prize at AFAANZ conference (2018)
• Women in Wealth Awards Best Accounting Lecturer (2017)
• Best Pitch paper prize FIRN Conference (2016)
• Australian School of Business Teaching Excellence Award (2013)

Clout has secured multiple competitive research grants including UNSW Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation Summer Research Grant (2019), University of Sydney Business School Pilot Research Grant (2016), and several AFAANZ Research Fund Grants. She currently supervises honours students and has previously supervised three honours theses on topics including IFRS adoption, earnings management, and executive incentives. Her teaching portfolio includes undergraduate financial accounting courses with recognition for technology-enabled teaching innovation.