Phil Hancock is a Professor of Accounting and the Director Student Experience in the Business School at the University of Western Australia. Phil has extensive experience in the regulation of corporate financial reporting, management and international accounting in both the educational and private sectors. Phil was Chair of the Accounting Learning Outcomes Working Party, which was responsible for drafting the threshold learning standards for graduates of bachelor and master degrees in accounting in 2010 and revised in 2016. Phil is a Fellow of CPA Australia and the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). In 2013 Phil was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Accounting and Finance Education and in 2023 an Outstanding Contribution to Accounting and Finance Practice by AFAANZ. He is a previous President of the Western Australian Divisional Council for CPA Australia. As an academic, Phil has held senior positions at the University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University and Murdoch University, where he was an Associate Professor in Accounting.
