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Dr Nirosha (Dilhani) Kapu Arachchilage

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5356
Mobile: 0420 515 829
Email: D.KAPUARACHCHILAGE@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.467  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0923-7197

Dr Nirosha (Dilhani) Kapu Arachchilage is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law.

Key Research Areas

  • Accounting Education
  • Auditing and Assurance
  • Sustainability
  • International Business

Biography

Dilhani has had an extensive academic career, previously having taught strategic management in the School of Management at ECU and accounting based subjects in the Department of Accounting, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka (the leading national university in Sri Lanka for management education).
She has also engaged continuously in doing research relating to the areas of accounting and finance education, auditing practices, sustainability reporting, management controls, business strategies and corporate governance. Dilhani also had the opportunity to hold various administrative positions and doing consultancies for organisations both in Australia and in Sri Lanka.

ECU Research Themes

Theme Two: Society and Culture; Accounting and finance education, Auditing practices, Sustainability reporting, Corporate Governance

Awards and recognition

2021 Accounting and Finance Discipline Award, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Australia

2019 Western Australia’s Outstanding Community Languages Teacher Award, Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, Western Australia

2015 Innovation in Teaching and Learning Award, Faculty of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Australia

2011 Dean’s Award for Achieving PhD, Faculty of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Australia.

Professional associations
  • Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA), UK
  • Certified Management Accountants (CMA), Australia
  • Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), Sri Lanka
  • Certified Public Accountants (CPA), Australia

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2011.

Research Outputs

2023

Journal Articles

  • Corazza, L., Zhang, A., Kapu Arachchilage, D., Scagnelli, SD. (2023). Blockchain and Sustainability Disclosure: A Scenario-Based Application for Supply Chains. Sustainability, 15(1), Article number 571. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010571.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Edirisinghe, U., Kapu Arachchilage, D. (2019). A Comparative Study of Accounting and Finance Bachelor’s Degree Programs in Australia and Sri Lanka. International Journal of Arts and Commerce, 8(6), 67-81. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/6671.

2016

Conference Publications

  • Edirisinghe, U., Kapu Arachchilage, D. (2016). A Comparative Study of Accounting and Finance Bachelor’s Degree Programs in Australia and Sri Lanka. ECU Business Doctoral and Emerging Scholars Colloqium 2016- Conference Proceedings (59-67). School of Business and Law, ECU.

2015

Conference Publications

  • Kapu Arachchilage, D. (2015). Why is Sri Lanka a new investment darling in Asia?. A New Paradigm for International Business. Proceedings of the Conference on Free Trade Agreements and Regional Integration in East Asia (343-351). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-499-3_19.

2013

Journal Articles

  • Kapu Arachchilage, D., Smith, M. (2013). The Effects of the Diagnostic and Interactive Use of Management Control Systems on the Strategy-Performance Relationship. Journal of Applied Management Accounting Research, 11(1), 9-27.

2012

Conference Publications

  • Kapu Arachchilage, D., Smith, M. (2012). Linking Uses of Management Control Systems with Strategy-Performance Relationship. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference (24p.). Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

No data available

Completed Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Master of Accounting by Research, The effect of hypothesis framing, prior expectation and professional trait scepticism on experts' and novices' evidence selected in a complex task
  • Master of Accounting by Research, Factors affecting csr disclosure in nepalese banks: A global reporting initiative perspective
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