Dr Lyndie Bayne serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Accounting discipline at the University of Western Australia Business School. A Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (FCA), she brings over 20 years of experience in sustainability research and accounting lecturing, following her early career as an audit clerk at KPMG in Cape Town from 1999 to 2001. Her academic background is diverse, encompassing a PhD in Accounting from UWA awarded in 2015, which investigated the spread of environmental sustainability practices in business networks across the Western Australian agrifood sector; a research Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management from the University of Cape Town in 2010 on supplier development practices in the South African motor industry; a first-class Honours degree in Economics from UCT in 1995; a BCom Accounting conversion course; PGDA; BCom; and B.Econ.Sci from WITS. She previously lectured at the University of Cape Town from 2002 to 2010.

Bayne’s research specializations include sustainability standards and reporting practice, the interface between financial and non-financial reporting, business networks, corporate financial reporting, integrated reporting, and non-financial performance indicators. She has analyzed non-financial KPI disclosures across hundreds of annual and sustainability reports for large listed companies in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the UK, and examined supply chain management and disclosures. Competitive industry grants awarded to her include the IAAER-KPMG Grant Program to inform the IASB Round 8 in 2023 on climate disclosures and non-financial KPIs, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland grant in 2018. Her work has been published in high-quality international journals and industry reports, with key publications such as "Tax Planning Under Pressure: The Impact of Carbon Emissions Management Post-Paris Agreement" (2026, Accounting and Finance, with Sun, Shan, Agarwal); "Determinants of ESG Disclosure among Listed Firms under Voluntary and Mandatory ESG Disclosure Regimes in Hong Kong" (2024, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, with Chung, Birt); "A Framework for Understanding Strategic Network Performance: Exploring Efficiency and Effectiveness at the Network Level" (2017, Industrial Marketing Management, with Schepis, Purchase); and textbook contributions including "Financial Accounting: Reporting, Analysis and Decision Making" (2025, with Carlon et al.). She received the 2020 Emerald Literati Awards and UWA Student Guild Teaching Excellence Award, plus Australian Postgraduate Award and UWA top-up scholarships for her PhD (2011-2014). Bayne chairs the CA ANZ Sustainability Working Group WA, is Deputy Chair of the CA ANZ Corporate Advisory Panel WA, coordinates the BCom Accounting Major at UWA, and has extensive experience leading research teams, managing large classes, and contributing to accounting curricula development across school, university, college, and professional levels.

Professional Email: lyndie.bayne@uwa.edu.au