"My university experience was amazing. I made a great groups of friends and I found that ACU had a great social environment. Academically the tutors and Head of School took a real interest in my development. They were always available when I needed to chat.

"I had some lecturers and tutorial teachers who went above and beyond their call of duty to help me. There was a time that I was on the phone to my lecturer at 7am because I was having trouble before an exam. It really felt like their main priority was making sure we did well.

"I like the fact that it was a smaller campus and the university seemed very hands on with the students, offering extra help to those who asked for it. I also liked the fact that they focused some of the learnings around corporate and social responsibility."

Associate Professor Wendy James is Associate Professor at the Peter Faber Business School. A fully certified management and practicing accountant, Dr James has taught at a number of universities in Australia and overseas, including Charles Darwin University, Queensland University of Technology, the University of Adelaide, Griffith University, and a large government university in Dubai. Dr James has a wealth of experience teaching a range of courses, including financial accounting, managerial accounting, and information systems. She was part of a team that conceived and delivered a project accounting course to finance managers around the world. Whilst in Dubai, she spent time working for the Central Bank of Dubai training financial accountants. Dr James's current research interests include accounting education, management accounting and control systems, performance management, organisational change, public sector financial management and strategic management accounting in the private, public and not for profit sectors. She has been published in a number of prominent accounting journals and likes to referee up-and-coming research articles from other authors.