Ken Trotman

Scientia Professor Ken Trotman is a Professor of Accounting at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), affiliated with the Business School's School of Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation. He previously served as Head of the School of Accounting from 1991 to 2000. His research focuses on judgment and decision-making in auditing, with particular emphasis on auditor judgments and audit quality. He holds degrees from UNSW (BCom, MCom, PhD) and is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (FCA), CPA Australia (FCPA), and the Academy of Social Sciences (FASSA).

Research interests include audit skepticism, CSR reporting, audit committees, and professional judgment. He has published extensively in top journals like the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. Key awards include the 2000/2001 Outstanding Auditing Educator Award, the 2009 Notable Lifetime Contribution Award in Behavioral Accounting, and induction into the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame (2011).

• Recent grants include ARC Professorial Fellowships (2011–2015) and multiple ARC Discovery Grants.
• Teaching includes executive training programs like the Essentials of Finance for Non-Finance Managers at UNSW's AGSM.
• He contributes to audit standard-setting and has advised parliamentary inquiries on auditing regulation in Australia.

His work bridges academic research and practical auditing challenges, emphasizing audit quality, professional ethics, and decision-making processes.