Graeme Dean is Professor Emeritus in the Discipline of Accounting at the University of Sydney Business School. He holds an MEc degree as well as FCPA and TIA professional qualifications. Dean has pursued a long career at the University of Sydney, contributing extensively to the field of accounting through research, publications, and editorial roles. He served as past Editor and Consulting Editor of the ISI-listed journal Abacus. His academic interests center on accounting theory, auditing, company failures, financial reporting, management accounting, financial analysis, and financial statement analysis. Specifically, his research specializations include unexpected corporate failures and the role of accounting in those failures, optimal distributions in liquidations, and inflation accounting in private and public sectors.

Among his major publications are 'Indecent Disclosure: Gilding the Corporate Lily' (2007, with Frank Clarke), 'Corporate Collapse: Regulatory, Accounting and Ethical Failure' (2003), 'The Unaccountable & Ungovernable Corporation: Companies' Use-By Dates Close In' (2014, with Frank Clarke and Matthew Egan), 'Accounting Thought and Practice Reform: Ray Chambers’ Odyssey' (2019, with Frank Clarke and Martin Persson), 'Contributions of Limperg and Schmidt to the Replacement Cost Debate in the 1920s' (2020), 'Frank Lewis Clarke (1933–2020): An International Journey in Quest of a More Serviceable Accounting' (2021), 'Corporate capers, group accounting reforms' (2022), and '50 years of accounting thought: the revolutionary antecedents of fair value accounting' (2025). In 2019, Dean co-authored the biography of accounting pioneer Raymond Chambers, which received the Australian Society of Archivists' Mander Jones Award for the best publication that uses or interprets Australian archive material. That year, he was also inducted into the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame. Dean's scholarly work has advanced understanding in accounting history, regulatory reform, ethical issues in corporate accounting, and theoretical developments.

Professional Email: graeme.dean@sydney.edu.au