Mary has over 20 years experience as a lecturer and researcher in financial accounting and accounting theory at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Before becoming an academic, she was in public practice working in auditing, taxation and management consulting, and also has experience in manufacturing and the public sector. She has developed a nexus between teaching and research with publications in Critical Accounting Education and culminated in winning the Vice Chancellor's Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning 2000 team award. The interdisciplinary feature of her work has lead to collaborations between accounting and taxation law and has resulted in international publications on environmental tax. Mary has also led teaching education projects overseas which complement her research in accounting and its role in developing countries. She has been Head of the Discipline of Accounting from July 2003 to February 2007 and has been the Faculty of Commerce Teaching and Learning Director since April 2006. As well as these governance roles, Mary has served on a number of boards of community organisations.
Articles
Policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (with Brian H. Andrew), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Benjamin Franklin once said that `In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxesÿand...
Carbon tax: challenging neoliberal solutions to climate change (with Jane L. Andrew and Brian H. Andrew), Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2010)
Public policy over the last 25 years has been dominated by neoliberal ideology which has...
Powerful players: how constituents captured the setting of IFRS 6, an accounting standard for the extractive industries (with Corinne L. Cortese and Helen J. Irvine), Accounting Forum (2010)
This paper illustrates the influence of powerful players in the setting of IFRS 6, a...
Accounting for emission rights: an environmental ethics approach (with Emma Zhang-Debreceny and Lee Moerman), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
We argue that the International Accounting Standard Board's difficulty in arriving at a standard for...
Critical accounting as an epistemic community: hegemony, resistance and identity, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
In this paper I discuss the School of Accounting and Finance's epistemic community, which has...
Contributions to Books
The Shifting Meaning of Sustainability (with Natalie Stoianoff and Jane L. Andrew), in G. Aras & D. Crowther (Eds.), A Handbook of Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility (2010)
Sustainability as a concept, gained momentum as international non-government organizations developed the term. The United...
Do tax concessions for mining site rehabilitation work? Evaluating 10 years of reform (with Natalie P. Stoianoff and Lindel H. House), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
Rehabilitation of Mining Sites in Australia: Tax, Accounting and Serving the Environment (with Natalie P. Stoianoff), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2003)
Presentations
Strategic discourse and Australia¿s carbon pollution reduction scheme (with Shirley R. Leitch and Jane L. Andrew), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
In this paper we explore discourse related to efforts of the Australian Government to mitigate...
Accounting for emission rights: an environmental approach (with Emma Siming Zhang and Lee C. Moerman), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)
Emissions trading schemes are an emerging phenomenon in global economy in the 21st century. It...
Balancing the seesaw: how Australia's carbon pollution reduction scheme can fail (with Andrew S. Tan and Lee C. Moerman), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)
Australia¿s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and the recent release of the Carbon Pollution Reduction...
Discourse and institutions of sustainability and the role of accounting (with Natalie P. Stoianoff and Jane Andrew), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)
Towards Improving Learning Outcomes for International Students: The Master of Professional Accounting Embedded Literacy Project (with A. Abraham), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
This paper presents the University of Wollongong’s collaborative project to embed English literacy in key...