Stewart Jones

Professor Stewart Jones serves as Professor of Accounting in the Discipline of Accounting, Governance and Regulation at the University of Sydney Business School. Appointed to the professorship in 2001, he later served as Head of Discipline. His research focuses on corporate financial reporting, credit risk modeling, corporate bankruptcy prediction, accounting regulation, and corporate social responsibility reporting. Professor Jones has published over 120 scholarly articles in leading accounting and finance journals. Key publications include "Predicting Firm Financial Distress: A Mixed Logit Model" (The Accounting Review, 2004), "The Investment Performance of Socially Responsible Investment Funds in Australia" (Journal of Business Ethics, 2008), "Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction: A High Dimensional Analysis" (Review of Accounting Studies, 2017), "Predicting Corporate Bankruptcy: An Evaluation of Alternative Statistical Frameworks" (Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2017), and "CSR Disclosure and Financial Performance Revisited: A Cross-Country Analysis" (Australian Journal of Management, 2018). He edited the seminal volume Advances in Credit Risk Modelling and Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and co-authored The Routledge Companion to Financial Accounting Theory.

Jones's contributions extend to practical applications, including a sophisticated early warning system for predicting corporate distress events that surpasses traditional approaches and a risk and bankruptcy dataset improving credit risk and corporate banking models. His machine-learning-based methodologies process big data for highly accurate bankruptcy forecasts, aiding banks, companies, and investors in lending, operations, and investment. In 2018, he was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) for distinguished contributions to accounting and society. As Senior Editor of Abacus, the journal of the University of Sydney Accounting Foundation, he influences the field editorially. Professor Jones's scholarship has amassed over 10,000 citations on Google Scholar, underscoring his impact.

Professional Email: stewart.jones@sydney.edu.au