Prerana Agrawal serves as a Lecturer in Accounting within the UWA Business School at the University of Western Australia. She earned her PhD in Auditing from the University of Western Australia in 2018, focusing her doctoral thesis on "External auditors' reliance on management's experts: Evidence from Australia." Prior to this, she obtained a Master of Accounting in Accounting and Finance from the same university in 2010. As a qualified Chartered Accountant, Prerana possesses over two decades of experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Her academic career includes positions such as sessional tutor in Auditing at Curtin Business School in 2007, research assistant at UWA in 2007, fractional tutor in Auditing, Corporate Accounting, and Taxation at UWA from 2006-2007, and various teaching roles in India, including teacher at Chanderbala Modi Academy (1998-2000, 2002-2003) and lecturer at Pydah College (1996-1997) and Narmada College of Management (2001-2002). She began her professional journey as an audit trainee and senior at M/s Rajendra Manudhane and Co. in India from 1991-1994.

Prerana's research interests center on auditing, with a particular emphasis on auditor judgement and decision making, as well as accounting education concerning student learning. Her ongoing projects explore not-for-profit audits, the development of soft skills among accounting students, sustainability reporting, and ethics within the accounting profession. She has authored several publications in prestigious journals, such as "Allocating Charities' Financial Reporting Requirements Using Tiers: Australian Perspectives" with Han Wen, David Gilchrist, and Lyndie Bayne (Accounting & Finance, 2025), "A Toolkit for Developing Professional Skepticism in the Accounting Classroom" co-authored with Jacqueline Birt, Mark Holub, and Warrick van Zyl (Issues in Accounting Education, 2025), "Relational Contracting Theory and Internal Audit: Chief Audit Executives' Perspectives on Creating and Strengthening Trust by Building Credibility and Clarity" with Elnaz Vafaei, Harjinda Singh, Glennda Scully, and David Gilchrist (International Journal of Auditing, 2024), and "Accounting for crypto-assets: stakeholders' perceptions" with Jun Heng Chou and Jac Birt (2022). Her scholarly work is bolstered by external grants, including the IAAER-KPMG Research Grant in 2023 and the AFAANZ Research Grant in 2021. Prerana has been honored with the UWA Business School Early Career Researcher Award in 2021 and the UWA Business School Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. She delivers courses in Auditing, Taxation, Corporate Accounting at undergraduate level, and Principles of Auditing and Intermediate Corporate Financial Reporting at postgraduate level, earning consistent praise for her innovative teaching approaches and unit design.

Professional Email: prerana.agrawal@uwa.edu.au