Helen Irvine

About

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 organization
Helen leads 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

Employment

• Queensland University of Technology Professor
  2012 - Present
• Queensland University of Technology Associate Professor
  2008 - 2011
• University of Wollongong Senior Lecturer
  2004 - 2007
• University of Wollongong Lecturer
  2000 - 2003
• University of Wollongong Associate Lecturer
  1992 - 1995

Education

• University of Wollongong PhD
  ? - 2000
• University of Wollongong MCom
  ? - 1995
• University of Queensland BCom
  ? - 1972

Projects & Funding

• The financial sustainability of Australian public universities: public policy and management implications Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ)
  2015 - 2015
• Accountants’ contribution to achieving operational sustainability for Australian not-for-profit organizations Certified Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Research Grant.
  2012 - 2012
• Not for Profit Accounting Research Project Private donation
  2011 - 2012

Publications (53)

• The first 25 years of the Queensland Rugby Football League: Claims to legitimacy in annual reports
  Accounting History 2016 DOI: 10.1177/1032373215614116
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• The legitimising processes of a new regulator: the case of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
  2016 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-10-2014-1850
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• Derivatives disclosure in corporate annual reports: Bank analysts' perceptions of usefulness
  Accounting and Business Research 2015 DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2015.1059312
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• Do not-for-profits need their own conceptual framework?
  Financial Accountability & Management 2014 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12044
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• Financial reserves: A necessary condition for not-for-profit sustainability?
  Performance Management in Nonprofit Organizations: Global Perspectives 2014 DOI: 10.4324/9781315765761
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• Accounting regulation for charities : international responses to IFRS adoption
  Pacific Accounting Review 2013
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• Business research in virtual worlds : possibilities and practicalities
  Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 2013 DOI: 10.1108/09513571311311856
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• Research rap...an unfininshed work
  Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 2013
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• A genealogy of calculations at an early Queensland sugar mill
  Accounting History 2012 DOI: 10.1177/1032373211435501
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• Accountability beyond the headlines : why not-for-profit organisations need to communicate their own expenditure stories
  Australian Accounting Review 2012 DOI: 10.1111/j.1835-2561.2012.00192.x
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• Not-for-profit ratios for financial resilience and internal accountability : a study of Australian international aid organisations
  Australian Accounting Review 2012 DOI: 10.1111/j.1835-2561.2012.00163.x
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• An epistemic community as influencer and implementer in local government accounting in Australia
  Financial Accountability and Management 2011 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2011.00524.x
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• From go to woe : how a not-for-profit managed the change to accrual accounting
  Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 2011 DOI: 10.1108/09513571111161611
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• A green drought : the challenge of mentoring for Australian accounting academics
  Accounting Research Journal 2010 DOI: 10.1108/10309611011073241
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• A test of podcasting effectiveness for lecture revision
  24th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference : Managing for Unknowable Futures 2010
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• Investigating international accounting standard setting: The black box of IFRS 6
  Research in Accounting Regulation 2010 DOI: 10.1016/j.racreg.2010.07.003
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• A framework for evaluating business lead users' virtual reality innovations in Second Life
  Electronic Commerce Research 2009 DOI: 10.1007/s10660-009-9035-3
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• Accounting information systems in a centrally planned economy : the case of the General Company for Pipelines (GCP)
  Contabilitate si Informatica de Gestiune // Accounting and Management Information Systems 2009
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• Extractive industries accounting and economic consequences: Past, present and future
  Accounting Forum 2009 DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2008.07.005
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• Powerful players : how constituents captured the setting of IFRS 6, a standard for the extractive industries
  Accounting Forum 2009 DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2008.11.003
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