Dr Lissa Monk

Biography

Lissa is a Lecturer of Accounting in the School of Business. Lissa graduated from Liverpool University with an honours degree in English and Divinity before gaining her MSc in Computer Science at the University of Dundee before joining the Department of Accounting & Finance as a teaching fellow. Lissa became a full-time lecturer in 2000 and undertook a part-time PhD in Audit Education, graduating in 2006. Lissa's teaching focuses on business and management within accounting and now primarily teaches on the Business Management degree. Her research interests include accountancy education and corporate governance.

• Business Environment
• Management & Information Systems
• Strategic Management
• Corporate Governance

Research Interests

• Accountancy Education including Professional Education and Education for Sustainability
• Corporate governance in emerging economies
• Management accounting change

Research Grants

• L. Crawford, K. Falgi, C. Helliar, E Monk, C. Teodori, M.Veneziani, S. Wanyama. IAAER/ACCA International accounting education standards. IAAER/ACCA Grant Program for Research on International Accounting Education Standards - 25,000 dollars (2008/10)
• M. Mina, EA Monk, CV Helliar, Corporate Governance developments in the Latin American Andean region, ICAS Seedcorn Grant, 2008
• C V Helliar, E A Monk, L A Stevenson (with C Allison, St Andrews University), "Investigating Auditing Skills in an Internet Environment", ICAS, £ 8,450, 2001-2004

Publications since 2008

Refereed papers

• C.V.Helliar, E.A.Monk and L.A.Stevenson) The Development of trainee auditors skills in tertiary education (2009) International Journal of Auditing, Vol 13 (3), pp185-202.
• L.Crawford, C.V.Helliar and E.A.Monk (2011), Generic Skills in Audit Education, Accounting Education: an International Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2, 115-131.
• L. Crawford, C.V. Helliar, E.A. Monk and L.A.Stevenson (2011), SCAM: Design of a Learning and Teaching Resource, Accounting Forum, 35(1), p61-72.

Refereed research monograph

• L. Crawford, K. Falgi, C. Helliar, E Monk, C. Teodori, M.Veneziani and S. Wanyama (2010), IES Compliance and the knowledge, skills and values of IES 2, 3 and 4, The International Association for Accounting Education & Research

Contributions to edited volumes

• L.Crawford, C.V.Helliar and E.A.Monk (forthcoming), Generic Skills in Audit Education, Audit Education, Edited by Karen Van Peursem, Elizabeth Monk, Richard M.S. Wilson and Ralph W. Adler, Routledge: England, ISBN: 978-0-415-69873-3

Further contributions

• (Joint editor with C.V Helliar), British Accounting Review Research Register, Academic press; (2002; 2004; 2006; 2008; 2010 and 2012-forthcoming)
• E.A. Monk, K. Van Peursem, , R M.S. Wilson and R. Adler- editors (2012) Audit Education, , Routledge: England, ISBN: 978-0-415-69873-3
• E.A. Monk, K. Van Peursem and R. Adler (2012) Guest Editors, Cases in Audit Education", Accounting Education: an International Journal, 21(2)
• K. Van Peursem and E.A. Monk (2011) Guest Editors, "Audit Education"; Accounting Education: an International Journal, 20(2)
• University of Dundee Honorary Graduates' Award for Innovative Teaching - Highly Commended - for 'SCAM': a web-based audit teaching package (with C.V. Helliar, E.A.Monk & L.A. Stevenson).

Current Work in Progress

• 2* "Learning from and with the children: A story from Peru", (with M. Contrafatto) (2011), Accounting Education: an International Journal, (under review)
• 3*The legitimacy of IFAC: the Case of IESs (with L.Crawford, C.V.Helliar and M.Veneziani: Accounting Forum (under review)
• 3* The (poor) education of putative accountants across the globe, (with L.Crawford, C.V Helliar and M.Veneziani), target journal: British Accounting Review.

Selected Publications Prior to 2008

• The Development of an audit learning package:SCAM (2007) (with E.A.Monk and L.A.Stevenson), The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, Edinburgh, 198pp.
• "The emancipatory potential of online reporting: The case of counter accounting", S. Gallhofer, J Haslam, E Monk, C Roberts, (2006) Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 19(5):681-718
• "Response to Prem Sikka's reflections on the Internet and possibilities for counter accounts", S. Gallhofer, J Haslam, E Monk, C Roberts, (2006) Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 19(5):770-773.
• "Recruitment by accounting departments in the higher education sector revisited: plus ca change?", A Duff and E.A.Monk, (2006) British Accounting Review, 38(2):193-220
• "Wafflers and Talkers: A New Perspective on Accounting Academics" E A Monk, R Craig, C V Helliar, A Sangster, (Proceedings of 2004 College Teaching and Learning Conference, Florida, Jan 2004)
• "Designing a learning resource for audit teaching: is the web the way forward" E A Monk , C V Helliar, R Michaelson, & C Allison (Proceedings of Second Web-Based Learning Environments Conference, Lund, 24th-26th October, 2001)