Phil Hancock is Professor of Accounting and Associate Dean Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education at the University of Western Australia. Phil has been involved in a number of nationally funded learning and teaching projects and is joint leader of the project Achievement Matters: external peer review of accounting learning standards which has been operating since 2011. He has published widely in accounting and accounting education and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Accounting Education. He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, CPA Australia and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). In 2006 he received a national Carrick Institute citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and in 2013 received an award for outstanding contributions to accounting education by AFAANZ.