University of Queensland’s David Smith is the Australia/Asia-Pacific member of the Editor Team.  David brings extensive experience in the Australia-Pacific community including a long record of publication in key accounting journals including AOS, MAR, BRIA, and more.  Lately, David has specialized in positivist field studies of management accounting and also brings a strong interest in the not for profit sector to the role.  While field studies are his recent passion he has extensive experience with survey based accounting research. David has also served on the Centre of Excellence Panel (Australasia) for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) bringing that vital research connection to our team.  David will be handling a selection of management accounting field studies, the occasional survey paper and helping out with methodological papers.