Professor Ellie Chapple
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Accountancy
Biography
- Ellie (Larelle) Chapple holds the position of Professor of Accounting at QUT Business School, where she is the research leader in Forensic Accounting and the chief investigator in the research program Accounting For Social Change.
- Ellie is Director of Research Training in the Faculty of Business & Law at QUT
- Ellie is a member of AFAANZ, member of the Society of Corporate Law Academics and Legal practitioner admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland. She holds a professional Doctorate in Juridical Science (SJD) from QUT.
- Ellie is the co- editor of the Accounting Research Journal since 2014
- Ellie is a deputy editor-in-chief for Accounting & Finance since 2021
- Ellie has examined over 25 research masters and PhD thesis as external examiner and currently supervises 9 research degree students
- See Ellie's google scholar page for up to date bibliography http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=AyA-oWUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
- Ellie's teaching and research interests are primarily corporate law, corporate governance, non-financial reporting and capital market transactions. She has published the results of her research, including corporate disclosure issues in fundraising and takeovers and corporate governance, in journals such as Accounting and Finance, Abacus, Company and Securities Law Journal, Australian Business Law Review, Australian Journal of Management, Australian Journal of Corporate Law, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. Ellie also maintains an interest in Insolvency Law and Competition Law.
- environmental reporting
- modern slavery reporting
- corporate social responsibility and accountability
- board diversity
- securities class action litigation
- corporate governance
- capital raising
- carbon accounting
- continuous disclosure
- corporate fraud & forensic accounting
- insolvency
- mergers and acquisitions; takeover bids; private equity
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Accountancy
Discipline
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Juridicial Science (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
- Graduate, AICD
- Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)
- Member Society of Corporate Law Academics SCoLA (previously Corporate Law Teachers Association)
- Legal practitioner admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland
- Member American Accounting Association
- Member and National Representative 2020-22 for Australia and New Zealand, European Accounting Association
- Company secretary, Financial Research Network Ltd
- Co-editor Accounting Research Journal (2014-2021)
- Deputy editor-in-chief Accounting & Finance
Teaching
Author of award-winning textbook: Company law: Interactive approach, Wiley 2nd ed, 2019 Teaching involvement: 2021 marked with * AYN433 Research topics in accounting *AYN507 Governance & accountability *AYB230 Corporations law AYB205 Law of business entities AYB232 Financial services law and regulation
Selected publications
- Chapple L, Duong L, Truong T, (2021) Are Friday announcements special in a continuous disclosure environment?, Accounting and Finance, 61, pp. 2031-2067.
- Chapple E, Chen B, Suleman T, Truong T, (2021) Stock trading behaviour and firm performance: Do CEO equity-based compensation and block ownership matter?, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 66.
- Nowland J, Chapple L, Johnston J, (2021) The role of the company secretary in facilitating board effectiveness: reporting and compliance, Accounting and Finance, 61, pp. 1425-1456.
- Bennison L, Chapple L, Sadiq K, (2021) Corporate Purpose: Repurposed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Chapple L, Walsh K, Shen Y, (2020) Corporate Culture and Fraud. In HK Baker, L Purda & S Saadi, Corporate Fraud Exposed: A Comprehensive and Holistic Approach, Emerald, pp. 85-106.
- Hardies K, Hossain S, Chapple L, (2021) Archival research on audit partners: assessing the research field and recommendations for future research, Accounting and Finance, 61 (3), pp. 4209-4256.
- Chapple E, Routledge J, (2020) Board turnover and reorganisation outcomes: Evidence from voluntary administration, Australian Accounting Review, 30 (3), pp. 212-224.
- Bui B, Chapple E, Truong T, (2020) Drivers of tight carbon control in the context of climate change regulation, Accounting and Finance, 60 (1), pp. 183-226.
- Xiong F, Chapple L, Xu S, Lin W, (2019) Adoption and use of technology with low litigation risk–the case of financial reporting on Twitter by ASX companies, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 31 (10), pp. 1152-1167.
- McCredie B, Sadiq K, Chapple E, (2019) Navigating the fourth industrial revolution: Taxing automation for fiscal sustainability, Australian Journal of Management, 44 (4), pp. 648-664.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Ellie, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- A Textual and Visual Analysis of Reporting Practices of Modern Slavery Risks in Business Operations and Supply Chains
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Sarah Osborne - How does the Australian regulatory environment influence the decision to adopt a distributing cooperative?
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Kerrie Sadiq - A Director's Perspective: Understanding Australia's 'two-strike' rule as a regulatory instrument: A Director's Perspective
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Julie-Anne Tarr - Corporate environmental sustainability and firm-specific risks: An examination of the association of environmental performance and proactivity with stock illiquidity, credit risk, and political risk
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Elisabeth Sinnewe, Dr Sarah Osborne - To label or not to label? The role of CEOs, drivers, and barriers in integrating carbon labels in supply chains
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Pamela Kent - Does CEO, Board, and Organizational Virtue Influence Firm Misconduct?
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Alexandra Williamson - Board social capital and Foreign institutional investment in China
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Natalie Elms - Board Ethnicity and Stock Price Crash Risk
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Troy Yao, Dr Tracy Qu
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Hybridized Corporations and their Social Responsibility Performance (2018)
- How Australian Social Enterprises use Strategic Marketing and Social Marketing to Drive Accountability and Change for Sustainable Development (2017)
- The Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting on Twitter (2017)
- Auditor expert performance in fraud detection: The case of internal auditors (2010)
- The impact of earnings performance on price sensitive disclosures under the Australian continuous disclosure regime (2005)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting on Labour-Practice-Related Issues in China: Evidence From Five Multinational Firms Operating in the Electronics Manufacturing Services Sector (2016)
- An Evaluation of the Indicators of Threat to Auditor Independence in an Islamic Legal System: The Case of Iran (2015)
- Using Global Formulary Apportionment for International Profit Allocation: The Case of Indonesia's Mining Industry (2015)