Selected Works of Dr. Helen Irvine

Helen has been teaching at university level for 20 years in the areas of Introductory Accounting and Financial Accounting. She was on the staff in the School from 1992 - 1995 as an Associate Lecturer, prior to taking up an Australian Postgraduate Award in 1996 to undertake her PhD studies, returning to the School as a Lecturer in 2000. Her early experience was in a large chartered accounting firm, and since then she has worked as a contract writer and tax agent, as well as teaching at university. Helen's doctoral thesis was on the institutionalisation of accounting practices in a large religious/charitable organization, and her research interests include the sociology of accounting, accounting history, financial reporting and ethnographic studies.

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• Balancing money and mission in a local church budget
• Beware the reformers: A Machiavellian view of the accounting profession and public sector reform in Australia
• Concept mapping to enhance student learning in a financial accounting subject
• Corporate creep: an institutional view of consultancies in a non-profit organisation
• Digging deeper: uncovering constituent discourse in the international accounting standard setting process for the extractive industries
• From integration to transformation
• Getting in, getting on and getting out: reflections on a qualitative research project
• How financial statements enhance(d) the long-term survival of an international religious/charitable organisation
• Mimetic Marketing in Environmental Volunteering Organisations
• Offering more than advice: consultancies in a religious/charitable organization
• Pass the Plate Around Again: A Study of Budgeting in a Local Church
• Pass the plate around again: a study of budgeting in a local church
• Powerful friends: the institutionalisation of corporate accounting practices in an Australian religious/charitable organisation
• Standard Setting for the Extractive Industries: A Critical Examination
• Sweet and sour: Accounting for South Sea Islanders labour at a North Queensland sugar mill in the late 1800s
• Taking a closer look: the why and how of new accounting practices in an Australian religious/charitable organisation
• The corporate connection: financial reporting in a large religious/charitable organization in Australia
• The Effect of Funding Changes on Public Sector Non-Profit Organisations: The Case of Bushcare NSW
• The globalization of accounting standards: the case of the United Arab Emirates
• The hollow promise of an accounting standard setter
• The legitimising power of regulation for Australian banks: an institutional approach
• The legitimizing power of financial statements in The Salvation Army in England, 1865 - 1892
• The legitimizing power of financial statements in The Salvation Army in England, 1865 - 1892
• The power of the lens: a comparative analysis of two views of the Fiji Development Bank
• The rationale and impact of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards: the case of the United Arab Emirates
• Trust me! A personal account of confidentiality issues in an organisational research project
• What the big picture misses: how new accounting practices were institutionalised in an Australian religious/charitable organisation