Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change

Dr Emer Curtis, B. Comm. FCA, Ph.D.

Lecturer in Accountancy & Finance

Email: Emer.Curtisnuigalway.ie
Phone: +353 (0)91 493138
Fax: +353 (0)91 494565
Office Location: Room 379, Top Floor, Cairnes Building

Profile

Dr Curtis is a lecturer in Accounting at NUI Galway.  She is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and prior to joining NUI Galway Dr Curtis work as an audit manager at Arthur Andersen in Luxembourg, following the completion of her professional training at Arthur Andersen in Dublin.

She completed her PhD at The University of Manchester.  Her PhD research focuses on the implications for practice and regulation of Accounting and Auditing as a social and institutional practice.  The thesis examines the development and implementation of Business Risk Auditing, a significant innovation in audit methodology by the large private sector audit firms. The research examined the knowledge management systems created, how these were used to attempt to change the business model and the tensions and conflicts created in attempting to implement and build legitimacy for this innovation in the highly institutionalised field of audit practice.

She is now applying the expertise gained on the development and implementation of innovation in the audit field to the use of control systems in managing innovation in industrial settings.  She is currently involved in collaborative funded study investigating the use of management control systems in highly innovative organisations.

Teaching

• Advanced Financial Accounting and Reporting
• Auditing
• Management Control Systems and Innovation

Publications

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