Rate My Professor Matthew Hall

Professor Matthew Hall is Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting at Monash Business School, Monash University. He serves as Associate Dean, Graduate Research and is accepting PhD students. Prior to joining Monash in 2016, Hall worked for ten years at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the Department of Accounting. Earlier in his career, he was affiliated with the Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. He holds ongoing Research Associate positions at the Stockholm School of Economics since June 2017 and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Hall contributes to the academic community as a member of the editorial board for Accounting, Organizations and Society.

Hall's research specializations encompass management accounting and performance measurement, with a focus on measuring value in difficult-to-quantify contexts such as mutuals and cooperatives, nonprofits, non-governmental organisations, social enterprises, and the third sector. His expertise aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being. Publications appear in leading international journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Management Accounting Research, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Voluntas. Key works include 'Accounting information and managerial work' (2010, Accounting, Organizations and Society), 'Who and What Really Counts? Stakeholder Prioritization and Accounting for Social Value' (2015, Journal of Management Studies), 'How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Risk Objectivization in Two Leading Banks' (2013), 'Demonstrating Value: How Entrepreneurs Design New Accounting Practices' (2021), 'Styles of verification and the pursuit of organisational repair: the case of social impact' (2024, Accounting, Organizations and Society), 'This is not an experiment: using vignettes in qualitative accounting research' (2025, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal), and 'Do accounting disclosures help or hinder individual donors’ trust repair after negative events?' (2023, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal). Hall leads projects such as the Mutual Value Measurement initiative with the Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals, the Care Together Program evaluation, and the Service Performance Reporting Research Project. He has contributed to media on challenges in measuring value for mutuals.