Dr Phill Cobbin

Phill Cobbin is a Senior Lecturer teaching in the undergraduate and postgraduate Audit and Assurances Services and Financial Accounting programs of the Department of Accounting.

Prior to joining academia he worked as a Chartered Accountant in the Melbourne and London offices of Price Waterhouse & Co. He is also a commissioned officer in the Army Reserve with the Royal Australian Army Pay Corps (currently on the Standby Reserve list).

His PhD dissertation is an account of the specialist accounting advice provided by the Australian accounting profession to the Australian Government during the war of 1939-1945 focusing particularly on the costing of munitions in private manufacturing facilities and the promotion of efficiency within the Department of Army.

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FEATURED Journal article

A progressive traditionalist: Sir Edwin Van-Der-Vord Nixon CMG, Accountant, (1876–1955)

Phill Cobbin's selected work

An Approach To Preserving Accounting And Business Archival Materials: Enhancing Accessibil..

Research Grant

Accounting the Cost of War

NEWS ARTICLE

The profession of arms and the profession of accounting numbers - Accounting, the military..

Journal article

An Approach To Preserving Accounting And Business Archival Materials: Enhancing Accessibil..

Research Grant

Digitizing archival records: Benefits and challenges for a large professional accounting a..

Journal article

The shifting and permeable boundaries of auditing: Evidence from early Australian examinat..

Conference Proceedings

Projects

Displaying the 2 most recent projects by Phill Cobbin.

An Approach To Preserving Accounting And Business Archival Materials: Enhancing Accessibility To Inform Research And Practice.

CPA Australia is one of the oldest professional accounting associations in the world. Its archival records provide invaluable insights into ..

2010 - 2014

Completed

An Approach To Preserving Accounting And Business Archival Materials: Enhancing Accessibility To Inform Research And Practice.

CPA Australia is one of the oldest professional accounting associations in the world. Its archival records provide invaluable insights into ..

2010 - 2014

Completed

2

Projects

Project Types

2

Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 27 most recent scholarly works by Phill Cobbin.

A progressive traditionalist: Sir Edwin Van-Der-Vord Nixon CMG, Accountant, (1876–1955)

PE Cobbin, GH Burrows

Journal article | 2020 | Accounting History

This article contributes to remedying the paucity of biographical information about Australian luminary accounting figures in the ..

The profession of arms and the profession of accounting numbers - Accounting, the military and war: A review

Phillip E Cobbin, Geoffrey H Burrows

Journal article | 2018 | Accounting History

Digitizing archival records: Benefits and challenges for a large professional accounting association

M Keneley, B Potter, B West, P Cobbin, S Chang

Journal article | 2016 | Archivaria

With antecedents extending to 1886, CPA Australia is one of the world’s most significant professional accounting associations. Ref..

The shifting and permeable boundaries of auditing: Evidence from early Australian examination papers

P COBBIN, B Potter, B West, M Keneley

Conference Proceedings | 2016

Dark matters in Britain’s Royal Navy: 1755-1805

P COBBIN, J Hronsky, G Burrows

Conference Proceedings | 2016

A fine education but no "bluestocking": Harriett Amies, pioneer female accounting professional

Jane JF Hronsky, Geoffrey H Burrows, Phillip E Cobbin

Conference Proceedings | 2015 | ABFHC 2009 Conference Papers Being Presented (online)

A fine education but no “bluestocking”: Harriett Amies, pioneer female accounting professional

JJF Hronsky, GH Burrows, PE Cobbin

Journal article | 2015 | Accounting History

Enhancing the Accessibility of Accounting and Business Archives: The Role of Technology in Informing Research in Accounting and Business

Phillip Cobbin, Graeme Dean, Cameron Esslemont, Patrick Ferguson, Monica Keneley, Brad Potter, Brian West

Journal article | 2013 | Abacus

No blood money: accounting-focused initiatives to limit the potential for war-profiteering from the manufacture of munitions by private contractors

P COBBIN

Conference Proceedings | 2013

Drafting of a profession: The register of accountants for national service in the war of 1939-1945

P COBBIN, G Burrows

Conference Proceedings | 2013

Enhancing the accessibility of accounting and business archives: The role of technology in informing research in accounting and business

PE Cobbin, G Dean, C Esselmont, P Ferguson, M Keneley, BN Potter, B West

Conference Proceedings | 2012 | Proceedings from the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand 2012 Conference

Budgetary and financial discontinuities: Iraq 1920-32

G Burrows, PE Cobbin

Journal article | 2011 | Accounting History Review

Controlling Government Expenditure by External Review – The 1921-22 Geddes Axe

P COBBIN, G Burrows

Book Chapter | 2011

The British navy's 1888 budgetary reforms

PE Cobbin, GH Burrows

Journal article | 2010 | Accounting History

Reforms to the British navy’s estimates for 1888—9 radically changed the way that budgetary information was presented to parliamen..

Controlling government expenditure by external review: The 1921-2 "Geddes Axe"

G Burrows, P Cobbin

Journal article | 2009 | Accounting History

“The best brains of the public accounting world”: The restricted membership of the army accountancy advisory panel, 1942-1945

PE Cobbin

Journal article | 2009 | Accounting Historians Journal

‘Safeguards against profiteering …’: The Role of the Accountancy Advisory Panel in the Department of Supply and Development and the Department of Munitions – 1939/40

P COBBIN, G BURROWS

Conference Proceedings | 2008 | 12th World Congress of Accounting Historians

The best brains in public accountancy - The restricted membership of the Army Accountancy Advisory Panel 1942-1945

P COBBIN, G BURROWS

Conference Proceedings | 2006 | 18th Accounting, Business & Financial History Conference

A revisitation of the "audit expectations gap": Judicial and practitioner views on the role of the auditor in late-Victorian England

EJ Teo, PE Cobbin

Journal article | 2005 | Accounting History

Immediate and lagged effects on audit fees following a change of auditor

PE COBBIN

Report | 2005

The relevance of 'sunk costs' inthe context of auditor changes: evidence from the Australian market for audit services

PE COBBIN

Report | 2005

An Invitation to Serve: The Establishment of the (Australian) Army Accountancy Advisory Panel in 1942

PE COBBIN, GH BURROWS

Conference Proceedings | 2005 | The Fourth Accounting History International Conference

International Dimensions of the Audit Fee Determinants Literature

PE COBBIN

Journal article | 2002 | International Journal of Auditing

The British Navy's 1888 'Program Budgeting' Reforms

PE COBBIN, GH BURROWS

Conference Proceedings | 2002 | 9th World Congress of Accounting Historians - Published Congress Proceedings

A Micro-Level Approach to Internationalising the Accounting Curriculum

PE Cobbin, REN Lee

Journal article | 2002 | Journal of Studies in International Education

Contemporary Publication in Accounting Education: From AAUTA 1960 to Dawkins 1990

P Cobbin

Journal article | 1994 | Accounting History

A chronological listing of articles on Australian Accounting Education Literature published between 1960 and 1994

P Cobbin

Journal article | 1994 | Accounting History

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability

Defence

Historical Studies

History and Philosophy of Specific Fields

Other Economic Issues

Understanding Past Societies

Government and Politics

Information Services

Management and Productivity

Management and Productivity Issues

News

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Accounting the Cost of War

Phill Cobbin

April 20, 2017

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