Ros Whiting
{{Short description|New Zealand accountancy academic (1958–2024)}}
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Rosalind Heather Whiting (3 March 1958 – 22 July 2024){{Cite web |date=July 2024 |title=WHITING, Rosalind Heather (Dr.) – Funeral Notice |url=https://hopeandsons.co.nz/funeral/whitingrosalindheatherdr-1-FIN53015016/ |access-date=7 October 2024 |website=Hope and Sons Ltd |language=en-NZ}} was a New Zealand accounting academic, and was an associate professor at the University of Otago. She was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand in 2018.
Early life and education
Whiting was born in Eltham, Taranaki, on 3 March 1958, and was one of six children of Jim and Isobel Whiting. Whiting attended Eltham Primary School before the family moved to New Plymouth, where she went to Merrilands Primary School, Highlands Intermediate and New Plymouth Girls’ High School. Despite initially intending to be a teacher, Whiting went on to take a Bachelor of Science in chemistry at the University of Otago, followed by a diploma in environmental studies from the University of Adelaide. She worked for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Roxburgh, studying the Clyde Dam, before studying accounting at Otago, gaining a postgraduate diploma and a Master of Commerce.
Academic career
Whiting joined the faculty of the University of Otago in 1991, rising to senior lecturer in 2003 and associate professor in 2016.{{Cite web |date=14 December 2016 |title=Otago academics made full professor |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/tourism/news/archive/otago-academics-made-full-professor |access-date=7 October 2024 |website=University of Otago news}}{{Cite web |date=17 December 2016 |title=University appoints 17 as professors |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/campus/university-of-otago/university-appoints-17-professors |access-date=7 October 2024 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}} She completed a PhD titled Gender, family responsibilities and career success in the New Zealand accountancy profession at the University of Otago in 2006.{{Cite thesis|title=Gender, family responsibilities and career success in the New Zealand accountancy profession |last=Whiting|first=Rosalind Heather|type=PhD thesis|publisher=OUR Archive, University of Otago|url=https://hdl.handle.net/10523/5725|date=2006|hdl=10523/5725 }}
Whiting was interested in the history of accounting, and gender and accounting careers, but also published on corporate finance and microfinance. Whiting was involved in a research study that found dropping levels of home ownership was reducing the likelihood of a comfortable retirement for an increasing number of people.{{Cite news |last=Gibb |first=John |date=16 April 2019 |title=Non-home owners face poorer retirements |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/non-home-owners-face-poorer-retirements |access-date=7 October 2024 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}} In 2009 Whiting founded Dunedin Community Accounting, which provides advice and training to community groups.{{Cite news |last=Harwood |first=Brenda |date=3 March 2019 |title=Community accounting for non-profits restarted |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/business/local-business/community-accounting-non-profits-restarted |access-date=7 October 2024 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}
Whiting retired in May 2023.{{Cite web |last=Knox |first=Sally |date=8 May 2023 |title=Associate Professor Ros Whiting retires |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/associate-professor-ros-whiting-retires}} She died from pancreatic cancer in Dunedin on 22 July 2024, survived by her husband and three children.{{Cite web |last=Lewis |first=John |date=5 October 2024 |title=Obituary: made incomprehensible clear |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/obituary-made-incomprehensible-clear |access-date=7 October 2024 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}
Honours and awards
Whiting was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand in 2018, for her "outstanding contribution and achievement to the profession of accountancy".{{Cite web |date=18 December 2018 |title=Fellowship for 'outstanding contribution' to accountancy |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/about/news/newsroom/fellowship-for-outstanding-contribution-to-accountancy |access-date=7 October 2024 |website=University of Otago bulletin}}
In 2014 Whiting was awarded a University of Otago Teaching Excellence Award, and in 2018 the Otago Business School Citizenship Award.{{Cite news |last=Gibb |first=John |date=2 April 2014 |title=Outstanding teachers honoured |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/outstanding-teachers-honoured |access-date=7 October 2024 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}
Selected works
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- {{Cite Q|Q130455461}}
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References
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External links
- Ros Whiting's [https://web.archive.org/web/20220620235146/https://www.otago.ac.nz/accountancyfinance/staff/whiting.html University of Otago profile] (via Internet Archive)
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago
Category:University of Otago alumni
Category:University of Adelaide alumni
Category:People from Eltham, New Zealand