Warwick Baines 
BComm(UNSW), GradDipEd (UNSW), MComm(CSU), CA
Lecturer in Accounting
Office Location:
Room: 1.22
Building: S15
Mailing Address:
Charles Sturt University
School of Accounting
Panorama Ave
BATHURST NSW 2795
Tel: +61 2 6338 4438
Fax: +61 2 6338 4649
Email: wbaines@csu.edu.au
Brief Bio
Prior to joining Charles Sturt University (CSU) in July 2004 Warwick was employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers as an Audit Manager in the Technology, Information, Communication and Entertainment industry group. He is a Chartered Accountant with extensive practical experience and completed a Masters of Commerce at CSU in 2006. Warwick currently teaches subjects across all three years of the undergraduate degree. He is the subject convenor for ACC100 Accounting 1, one of the Faculty’s largest subjects by enrolment.
Research Focus
Public sector accountability and accounting education
Teaching Responsibilities
ACC100 Accounting 1
ACC110 Accounting 2
ACC222 External Reporting
ACC331 Auditing and Assurance Services
Administrative Responsibilities
Elected representative on School of Accounting and Computer Science’s Assessment Committee Elected representative on the Faculty of Business’ Accounting Board of Studies
Subject convenor ACC100 Accounting 1
Subject convenor ACC331 Auditing and Assurance Services
Professional Activities
Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICCA) and Bathurst campus representative
Selected Publications
Refereed Conference Proceedings:
2005
Charles Sturt University Learning and Teaching Conference, Bathurst 28-29 September: Developing a distance education package: reflections on a process. Warwick Baines, Chrisann Lee, Nicholas Pawsey and Kay Plummer
2006
3rd International Conference on Contemporary Business, Leura September: The appeal of school based financial management in contrasting public education systems.
CPA Accounting Educators Forum, Sydney November: Enhancing flexible delivery in accounting:Using MP3 files to deliver content and improve student distance education experience. Kay Plummer, Warwick Baines and Nicholas Davis
2007
47th Annual Conference for Accounting and Finance Association, Australia and New Zealand, (AFAANZ) Common ground across the divide: Financial management policies of schools in contrasting public education systems
Working Papers
10/06The appeal of school based financial management in contrasting public education systems
04/07Common ground across the divide: Financial management policies of schools in contrasting public education systems
Grants and Awards
2006
Joint recipient with Kay Plummer of a $2,000 Faculty of Business Scholarship in Teaching Fund grant to develop pod casts for first year accounting students and to research their effectiveness
2007
Joint recipient (with Ken Crofts, Carole Hunter and Lyn Flynn) of a $2,000 Faculty of Business Scholarship in Teaching Fund grant to develop on-screen action capture tutorials and other technologies and to research their effectiveness
Joint recipient with Kay Plummer of a $3,000 Faculty of Business seed grant for research into the learning modalities of undergraduate students
Joint recipient of 2007 Faculty of Business Group Teaching Award