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Elaine Evans

Elaine_Evans

Formal Name: Elaine Evans

Personal Title: Dr

Position: Associate Professor

Organisational Unit: Department of Accounting and Finance

Qualifications: BBus NSWIT, MCom ANU, MEd Sydney, DipEd STC, PhD UNSW, CPA

Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-6477

Fax: (+61-2) 9850-8497

Email: eevans@efs.mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 331

Publications

Journal Publications

  • Cheung, E., Evans, E. and Wright, S. 2008. The adoption of IFRS in Australia: The case of AASB 138 (IAS 38) Intangible Assets. Australian Accounting Review, No 46 Vol 18 Issue 3, pp. 248-256
  • Evans, E. and Rigby, B. 2008. Integrating academic literacy skills in an elective intermediate accounting subject. Asian Social Science, Vol 4, No 3, March, pp. 59-65
  • Evans, E. 2008. The Australian Society of Accountants’ attempt to introduce a Qualifying examination in the early 1970s: A case of form over substance. Accounting Education: an international journal. Vol 17, No 1, March, pp. 65-81
  • Tindale, J., Evans, E., Cable, D., and Mead, S. H. 2006. Operationalising Collaboration, The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture & Change Management, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 81-88
  • Birkett, W.P. and Evans, E. 2005. Theorising professionalisation: a model for organizing and understanding histories of the professionalizing activities of occupational associations. Accounting History, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 99-127
  • Birkett, W.P. and Evans, E. 2005. Control of accounting education within Australian universities and technical colleges 1944-1951: a uni-dimensional consideration of professionalism. Accounting, Business and Financial History, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 121-143.

Books and Book Chapters

  • Evans, E. and Ross, P. 2006. Accounting and Finance Education for Undergraduate Hospitality Management and Marketing Students: Finding out What They Need to Know, Editors, R. Juchau & G. Tibbits Celebrating Accounting. [University of Western Sydney, Penrith, ISBN 1 74108 077 0]

PhD awarded October 2003 from UNSW

  • "Professionalisation and the problematic of education: the case of accounting education in Australia 1945-1988"

Recent conference presentations

  • Evans, E. and Juchau, R. 2008. Accounting education in Colleges of Advanced Education: A story of transition. AFAANZ2008, Sydney, July
  • Cui, T., Evans, E., Wright, S. and Crowe, S. 2008. Have the objectives of the ASX recommendations on good corporate governance been achieved? AFAANZ2008, Sydney, July
  • Cheung E., Evans E. and Wright S., 2006. How the adoption of AIFRS affects entities that report intangible assets, 2006 AAAA Annual Conference Proceedings, Academic Accounting Association Conference, Sydney, Australia, 17-19 September, 2006
  • Tindale, J., Evans, E., Cable, D. and Mead, S. 2006. Technical and Communication Skills: Can They Both Be Accommodated In A Post Graduate Program Preparing Graduates For the Professional Accounting Workplace? 2006 AAAA Annualn Conference Proceedings, Academic Accounting Association Conference, Sydney, Australia, 17-19 September, 2006
  • Tindale, J. Evans, E., Mead S. and Cable, D. 2005. Collaboration as a means of integrating generic skills into a postgraduate accounting program. In Proceedings of International conference innovation in accounting teaching and learning, 6-8 February 2005
  • "Theorising (Accounting) Education as a Problematic for Accountiung Associations in the Process of Professionalisation". The Third Accounting History International Conference, Siena, September 2003 (with W. P. Birkett)
  • "Mapping the professional accounting curriculum in terms of analytical/design skills and modelling new ways of skills integration". Accounting Educators Forum, Sydney, November 2002 (with P. Ross)
  • "The Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme and the Disruption of Negotiated Relationships: State, Profession and Higher Education".9th World Congress of Accounting Historians, Melbourne, July 2002
  • "Finding Evidence in Agendas and Minutes: The Pleasure and the Pain". Academy of Accounting Historians 2001 Research Conference, Sante Fe, New Mexico, November 2001 (with R. Juchau)
  • "The Road Less Traveled: A Journey into Accounting Historiography". Academy of Accounting Historians 2001 Research Conference, Sante Fe, New Mexico, November 2001 (with S. Greer)

Professional Publications

  • Cummings, L. S., Evans, E., and Yip, P. 2007. Waking up late: Time ticking away for small business to be ready for new SME reporting regime, Charter, January, Vol. 78, No.1, pp.60-63
  • He, L, Wright, S. and Evans, E. 2007. Does better corporate governance result in lower earnings management? Keeping Good Companies, Vol. 59 No. 6, July, pp 330 - 334
  • Cui, T., Evans, E. and Wright, S. 2007. Who uses small and medium-sized enterprises financial statements and for what purposes? Charter, 1 August, pp 68-69
  • Cui, T., Wright, S. and Evans, E. 2007. Does better corporate governance make a difference to company value and performance? Keeping good companies, November, pp. 582-585