Dr Ellie Chapple

• Accounting

• corporate disclosure and reporting
• fraud and business forensics
• corporate transactions - fundraising and M&A
• corporate governance
• executive remuneration policy

• Coordinator/Lecturer, BUSN7054 Auditing and Assurance Services ()
• Coordinator/Lecturer, BUSN7054 Auditing and Assurance Services ()
• Coordinator/Lecturer, BUSN7057 Business Association Law ()

• corporate law
• auditing

Members & Technical committee, Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand

President (2009-2010) Corporate Law Teachers Association

Associate member, Financial Integrity Research Network

Member, Australasian Law Teachers Association

Solicitor, Supreme Court of Qld

L Chapple, P Clarkson & J King," Private Equity Bids in Australia: An Exploratory Study" 2009 accepted Accounting & Finance

L Chapple, V Clout & N. Gandhi, “Earnings management in emerging and compliant Australian firms since CLERP 9” presented at AFAANZ 2009

L Chapple, P Clarkson & D Gold, “The cost of carbon for corporates” presented at AFAANZ 2009

L Chapple, T Rowe & I Tutticci, “The role of the CEO in responding to takeovers” presented at Asian Finance Association International Conference 2009

L.Byrnes & L.Chapple, How should regulators deal with overpaid and deeply entrenched company executives? paper presented at Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference, Sydney, Feb 2009.

L.Chapple, C.Ferguson & D.Kang, "Misappropration and corporate governance" (2009) Journal of Forensic Accounting.

L.Chapple, Law Briefs - Company Law, Pearson education, 2009, ISBN9781442501317

M Overell, L Chapple and P Clarkson, ‘Environmental reporting – Complying with regulation or meeting international best practice? – A study of the Australian Mining Industry” (2008) 36 Australian Business Law Review 137

L Chapple, B Christensen and P Clarkson, 2007, ‘Termination fees in a ‘bright line’ jurisdiction’, Accounting and Finance, 47(4) 643-665

L Chapple and B Koh, 2007 ‘Regulatory responses to auditor independence dilemmas – who takes the stronger line?’ Australian Journal of Corporate Law 21(1) 1-21

L Chapple and B Christensen, 2005, ‘The non-binding vote on executive pay: a review of the CLERP 9 reform’ Australian Journal of Corporate Law 18(3), 263-287

L Chapple and E Cheung, 2005, ‘Disclosure of proxy voting information by Australian managed investment schemes’ Australian Accounting Review,75-83

Supervised higher degree theses in the following areas:

• securities fraud litigation
• fraud detection and internal controls
• the impact of the continuous disclosure regime
• earnings management as a defensive takeover strategy
• the cost of carbon in the capital market
• CLERP9 effects on earnings management
• private equity M&A
• bid take up
• schemes of arrangements in M&A
• independent experts reports in M&A
• break fees in M&A
• M&A prediction models

Where have I been lately? You might be interested in some of my collaborations:

8-11 Sept 2009: ABIS, University of Melbourne
• 4th- 7th July 2009: Accounting and Finance Assoc of Australia & New Zealand Conference, Adelaide.
• 30 June - 3 July 2009: Asian Finance Association Conference Brisbane.
• 19th-21 May 2009: visited UWA Perth.
• 22nd-24th April 2009: visited UQ Business School Brisbane.
• 20th April 2009: visited Bond University Robina.
• 2nd Febrary 2009: attended Corporate Law Teachers Conference UTS Sydney.

Ellie (Larelle) Chapple teaches primarily Auditing and Corporations Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her doctoral thesis related to corporate power and aspects of a company's external dealings. She has published the results of her other research interests, including corporate disclosure issues in fundraising and takeovers and corporate governance, in journals such as Accounting and Finance, Company and Securities Law Journal, Australian Business Law Review and Australian Journal of Corporate Law. Ellie also maintains an interest in Insolvency Law and Trade Practices Law. Ellie has worked as an academic since 1987, prior to which she completed articles of clerkship with Clayton Utz in Brisbane.

From 2004-2007, Larelle was the Director of the UQ KPMG Centre for Business Forensics. The Centre reflects collaborative research agendas of academids and the financial services sectors, the professions, law enforcement agencies.