Helen Yee
Accounting
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Helen joined as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney in July 2016. She received her PhD in Accounting from Deakin University in 2009. In recent years, her research interest focuses on accounting institutions and professionalization. She is particularly interested in studying the professionalization of the accounting profession in China, seeking to understand the role of the Chinese government, as well as the Big Four accounting firms, in shaping the development of the profession. She has published in Accounting, Organizations and Society and Critical Perspectives on Accounting and she is a member of the editorial board for Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Accounting History. Helen has taught in tertiary institutions both in Hong Kong and in Australia. She has extensive experience in teaching students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Her area of expertise is in the area of financial accounting and she has played key roles in a number of major re-developments of the financial accounting units over the years.
Research Interest
ACCT6001 Intermediate Financial Reporting 2017: S1, S2, 2016: S2,
Publications
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Yee H 2012 'Analyzing the state-accounting profession dynamic: some insights from the professionalization experience in China', Accounting, Organizations and Society, vol.37:6, pp. 426-44 [Link]