W T (BILL) Blair is the Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Macquarie University. As well as his major administrative responsibilities, Bill is lecturer in Accounting Information Systems. Bill's prior teaching experience encompasses many areas of the broader accounting curriculum, including financial and management accounting. Bill's current research interests cover a broad area including financial planning, social and environmental accounting, and information systems. His most recent research examined the state of financial planning education in Australian universities and he has a co-authored publication in the American journal Financial Services Review. Bill is currently mentoring an honours student in accounting who is researching the area of organisational information systems adoption in a developing country.

Financial planning in its broadest terms is now in the spotlight as it draws interest from a wide range of groups, including consumers, regulators, government, the financial services industry, accountants and most importantly educators. The emergence ... Read more