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Hi! I'm Victoria. Here is my bio:

Victoria is a senior lecturer at UNSW Sydney with a demonstrated history of working in high quality research projects within the areas of corporate governance, financial accounting and corporate finance. She is a PhD qualified academic, with analytical skills, a track record in high quality research design, accounting knowledge, and extensive  experience in active learning. Victoria's research has relevance to the accounting industry, market regulators and investors. She is currently employed at School of Accounting UNSW, the top research School in Australia for accounting research.



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