Adjunct Professor
Helen Irvine
Faculty of Business & Law,
Office of the Executive Dean, Business & Law
Biography
Background Helen's first career experience was in a large chartered accounting firm, after which she worked as a contract writer and tax agent before pursuing an academic career. She joined QUT in 2008 from the University of Wollongong. Helen's doctoral thesis was on the institutionalisation of accounting practices in a large not for profit organisation.- Accounting in not-for-profit organisations
- Financial reporting
- Qualitative research methodology.
While a full-time academic, Helen led the Not-for-profit accounting and accountability research group: http://www.qut.edu.au/research/research-projects/not-for-profit-accounting-and-accountability-research-group
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
Office of the Executive Dean, Business & Law
Keywords
Not-for-profit accounting, Financial Reporting and standard setting, Accounting history, Research methodology
Discipline
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Wollongong)
Professional memberships and associations
Publications
- Irvine H, Moerman L, Rudkin K, (2010) A green drought: The challenge of mentoring for Australian accounting academics, Accounting Research Journal, 23 (2), pp. 146-171.
- Irvine H, (2002) The legitimizing power of financial statements in the Salvation Army in England, 1865-1892, Accounting Historians Journal, 29 (1), pp. 1-36.
- Irvine H, Lazarevski K, Dolnicar S, (2009) Strings attached: new public management, competitive grant funding and social capital, Financial Accountability and Management, 25 (2), pp. 225-252.
- Mackenzie K, Buckby S, Irvine H, (2009) A framework for evaluating business lead users' virtual reality innovations in Second Life, Electronic Commerce Research, 9 (3), pp. 183-202.
- Cortese C, Irvine H, Kaidonis M, (2009) Extractive Industries Accounting and Economic Consequences: Past, Present and Future, Accounting Forum, 33 (1), pp. 27-37.
- Irvine H, (2005) Balancing money and mission in a local church budget, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 18 (2), pp. 211-237.
- Irvine H, Deo H, (2006) The power of the lens: A comparative analysis of two views of the Fiji Development Bank, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 19 (2), pp. 205-227.
- Irvine H, Gaffikin M, (2006) Getting in, getting on and getting out: reflections on a qualitative research project, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 19 (1), pp. 115-145.
- Irvine H, (2007) Corporate creep: an institutional view of consultancies in a non-profit organisation, Australian Accounting Review, 17 (1), pp. 13-25.
- Irvine H, (2008) The Global Institutionalization of Financial Reporting: The Case of the United Arab Emirates, Accounting Forum, 32, pp. 125-142.
QUT ePrints
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