Dr MARY DUNKLEY
Deputy Head of Group (Assurance of Learning) - Accounting, Economics, Finance & Law
Senior Lecturer, Accounting
DBA (Swinburne), MBA (Monash), GradDipEd (Melbourne), BBus (Monash)
Ph +61 3 9214 8436
Fax +61 3 9819 2117
Room BA1211
med@swin.edu.au
Dr. Dunkley teaches in the areas of Corporate Finance and Financial Accounting. During the last 20 years she has developed and taught accounting and finance courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level at Swinburne. She was the recipient of the Teaching excellence award in 2000. Previously Dr. Dunkley worked within the accounting profession at Price Waterhouse Coopers.
Mary is an active participant within the accounting profession having been an inaugural member and Chair of the Victorian Women’s CPA Network, current member of the advisory panel for Corporate Governance and Accountability and current member of the advisory panel for CPA module of Contemporary Business Issues. She has also been involved in presenting professional development courses for CPA Australia.
Dr. Dunkley has a keen interest in international students having worked closely with the International Student Unit at Swinburne. Mary contributes to the community by actively serving as a Justice of the Peace and a Bail Justice.
Dr. Dunkley’s research interest is in Entrepreneurship and Accounting. She is has published her research both locally and internationally.Professional Membership:
FCPA, JP, Bail Justice
Research Profile
Research Interests
- Entrepreneurship, Accountant & Accounting practices
Publications
Entrepreneur or Accountant?
An Exploratory Study of Accounting Public Practitioners and their Accounting Practices in Victoria and Tasmania - Doctoral Thesis
Regional Entrepreneurs: - An Unfamiliar Term in Regional Victoria, Australia Presented at the Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Association, International (ABEAI) conference 2004 – Hawaii November 2004
Accountants as Entrepreneurs: - Is it possible? Presented at the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand 17th Conference 2004 – Brisbane September 2004
Accounting for Non Accountants - Presented in November 2004 for - CPA Australia Victorian Congress
Accounting for Non Accounting Professionals - Presented in November 2004 for - CPA Australia Victorian Congress
Triple Bottom Line Reporting and the Entrepreneurial Organisation: An analysis of small listed Australian companies
Presented at the ANZAM Conference 2003 – Perth November 2003
Partnership for Sustainability – A ‘Win-Win’ case for Regional Victoria
Presented at the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand 16th Conference 2003 - Ballarat September 2003
Financial Planning – A Powerful Choice.
Published in National Accountant
August 2003 Volume 19/Number 9
The Official Journal of the National Institute of Accountants
Teaching Areas and Responsibility:
Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting
2008 - UniJobs’ Top 10 lecturer - Swinburne University
2000 - Swinburne University of Technology
Faculty of Business & Enterprise Teaching Excellence Award