Richard G.P. McMahon

Professor

BE, BEc, MBM(Adel), PhD(UNE)

Room: 3.64 Law and Commerce Building
Telephone: (08) 8201 2840
Richard.McMahon@flinders.edu.au

History

Joined the School from the University of Adelaide. Prior to this he had been employed for 7 years as a chemical engineer by AMDEL, a contract research and consulting organisation.

Major research interests

• Small enterprise
• Financial management

Use is being made of the recently released Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Business Longitudinal Survey Confidentialised Unit Record File for a series of related research projects focused on Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Specific matters under investigation include:

• SME growth and development
• Identifying growth SMEs
• SME growth, exporting and innovation
• SME financial profiles
• Equity agency costs and SME management/ownership structures
• SME under - and over-investment
• SME financing theory
• Financial slack and the investment and financing decisions of SMEs

Current teaching

• Financial Management
• Corporate Finance