Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Carolyn's research focuses on not-for-profit organisations' accounting and accountability. She is particularly interested in how the, charities and other not-for-profit organisations are resourced (by donors/philanthropists, grants, contracts, volunteers, etc.) and the resource constraints that cause many of these organisations to be financially vulnerable.
Carolyn is also researching public sector audit. She is currently working on a Routledge book on the structures, opportunities and challenges of Supreme Audit Institutions with Professor David Hay.
Membership of Professional Bodies
Professionally, Carolyn is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. She is also a Fellow of CPA Australia.
General
Carolyn is on the Practitioner Advisory Group of the IFR4NPO project (International Financial Reporting for Non Profit Organisations) extending her prior experience in accounting standard setting.
She has undertaken a number of commissioned research projects, and published work in relevant international journals such as: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Accounting History, Financial Accountability and Management, Accounting & Finance, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Public Managament Review and Public Money and Management. Her paper ‘Accounting History and Religion: a review of studies and a research agenda’ (Accounting History, 20(4) pp 430-463) won the 2015 Robert W. Gibson Manuscript Award. Her teaching areas include risk management and research methods.
Professional/editorial offices
Carolyn is Associate Editor of Accounting History and British Accounting Review. She is also on the editorial board of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.
Teaching Activity
Undergraduate Modules
Risk Management (BF3329)
PhD Supervision
Current PhD students
Modit Dar - Social reporting in Social Housing
Kiran Chohan - Measuring the social impact of philanthropy
Future students
I'm interested in taking on students studying not-for-profit/third sector issues in relation to my interests. I am also interested in studies into public sector audit.
Administrative Roles
Member Senior REF Review Board, ABS.
Contact Details
Email: c.cordery@aston.ac.uk
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responsibility
Social Sciences
New Zealand
Social Sciences
Charity
Business & Economics
staff
Social Sciences
public sector
Social Sciences
annual report
Social Sciences
regulation
Social Sciences
Accountability
Business & Economics
Network
Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Research Output 2006 2020
Evidence about the value of financial statement audit in the public sector
Hay, D. & Cordery, C. J., 4 Feb 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Public Money and Management.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
audit
public sector
auditing
evidence
Values
Heritage reporting by the Australian Public sector: possibilities from the concepts of new public governance
Woon, P., Chatterjee, B. & Cordery, C. J., 31 May 2019, In : Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. 32, 2, p. 612-631 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Heritage
Public governance
Public sector
Stakeholders
Accounting standards
International practices, beliefs and values in not-for-profit financial reporting
Cordery, C. J., Crawford, L., Breen, O. B. & Morgan, G. G., 16 Apr 2019, In : Accounting Forum. 43, p. 16-41Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Financial reporting
Not-for-profit organizations
Stakeholders
Methodology
Donation
NGO accounting and accountability: past, present and future
Cordery, C. J., Belal, A. & Thomson, I., 16 Apr 2019, In : Accounting Forum. 43, 1, p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Non-governmental organizations
Accountability
Surplus
Politicians
Stakeholders
Regulatory reform: distinguishing between mutual-benefit and public-benefit entities
Cordery, C. J. & Sim, D., 2 Sep 2019, In : Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management. 31, 3, p. 431-450 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
public benefits
regulation
reform
taxes
non-profit sector