Dr Vida L Botes
Senior Lecturer in Accounting
Qualification Convenor for Master of Professional Accounting (MPAcct)
Keywords
Accounting; Gender; Women and Gender Studies
Forensic Accounting Fraud Governance Ethics Accounting Education
Qualifications: DComm(Accounting) M.Com (Management Accounting) Hons Tertiary Education, CA(NZ)
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Room: MSB.3.06
Phone: +64 7 837 9304
Papers Taught
About Vida
Vida works at Waikato University where she teaches forensic accounting and financial accounting and researches into forensic accounting and innovation in accounting education. Prior to arriving in New Zealand Vida worked in audit practice, the corporate energy sector and academia in South Africa. Vida also spent time consulting to oil companies in the Middle East.
Vida is the winner of the 2016 Divisional Excellence in Teaching Award based on her VOICE (virtues, Obstacles, Individual, Community and Education) teaching philosophy .
Research Supervised
Research on Block Chain, Procurement Fraud
Research Interests
My primary research interest concentrates on fraud and forensic accounting. I also specialize innovation and diversity in accounting education. Vida concentrates on and bringing creativity into accounting education in order to intersect the areas of practice and academia. Vida has published in leading journals in the field.
Vida won the 2016 Best Paper Award for her innovative paper in Forensic Accounting. and also received the 2018 Highly Commended Emerald Publishing Award for her paper in Management Education.
Recent Publications
La Torre, M., Botes, V. L., Dumay, J., & Odendaal, E. (2021). Protecting a new Achilles heel: The role of auditors within the practice of data protection. Managerial Auditing Journal, 36(2), 218-239. doi:10.1108/MAJ-03-2018-1836
Botes, V., Low, M., & Sutton, A. (2020). Key audit matters and their implications for the audit environment. International Journal of Economics and Accounting, 9(4), 374. doi:10.1504/ijea.2020.110164
Sy, A., Botes, V., & Low, M. (Eds.) (2020). Special Issue on: Auditing. International Journal of Economics and Accounting, 9(4).
Botes, V., Sharma, U., Botes, R., & Singh, M. (2020). A structured approach to the governance of ethics using the five lines of assurance model. International Journal of Economics and Accounting, 9(4), 336. doi:10.1504/ijea.2020.110166
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