Professor Kerry Jacobs

B.Com M.Com (Hons) Canty NZ, PhD Edin

Head of School
School of Accounting and Business Information Systems

Office Location
Room 2040, PAP Moran Building 26B

Mailing Address
School of Accounting and Business Information Systems
Hanna Neumann Building 021
Australian National University
ACT 0200 Australia

Telephone	+61 2 612 50541
Fax	+61 2 612 54310
Email	kerry.jacobs@anu.edu.au

Disciplines

Accounting

Research Focus

Professor Jacobs’ research interests are focused on issues of public sector accountability, governance, audit, financial management and reform, particularly the relationship between accounting and politics. He is currently on the editorial board of three journals with an interest in public sector accountability and governance: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Financial Accountability & Management and Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change. Professor Jacobs also has research interests in accounting in religious organisations and the links between culture and accounting.

Teaching Focus

Teaching Responsibilities

Coordinator/Lecturer, BUSN3006 Public Sector Accounting (Sem 2)
Coordinator/Lecturer, BUSN7006 Public Sector Accounting ()
Coordinator/Lecturer, BUSN8018 Qualitative Research Methods (Sem 1)

Professional Activities

CA, FCPA

Publications

Jacobs, Kerry and Jones, Kate (2009) Legitimacy and parliamentary oversight in Australia: The rise and fall of two public accounts committees, Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol 22 No. 1 pp. 13-34.

Newberry, Susan and Jacobs, Kerry (2008). Obtaining the levers of Power: The Treasury and the Introduction of New Zealand’s Public Sector Financial Reforms, Envisioning a New Accountability: Advances in Public Interest Accounting, Vol. 13, pp. 115-150.

Modell, S., Jacobs, K. and Wiesel, F. (2007) A Process (Re)turn? Path Dependencies Institutions and Performance Management in Swedish Central Government, Management Accounting Research, Vol 18 No. 4, pp. 453-475.

Jacobs, Kerry, Jones, Kate and Smith, David. (2007) Public accounts committees in Australasia: the state of play’, Australasian Parliamentary Review, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 28-43.

Li, Beifei, Niinien, Outi and Jacobs, Kerry (2006) Spiritual well-being through vacations: Exploring the travel motives of the young Christian travellers, Tourism, Vol. 54 No. 3, pp. 211-224.

Thanacoody, P. Rani, Bartram, Timothy, Baker, Michelle, Jacobs, Kerry (2006). Career progression among female academics: a comparative study of Australia and Mauritius, Woman in Management Review, Vol. 21 No. 7, pp. 536-553.

Jones, Kate and Jacobs, Kerry (2006). Governing the Government: the Paradoxical Place of the Public Accounts Committee, Australian Parliamentary Review, Vol. 21 No. 1, Autumn, pp. 63-79.

Jacobs, Kerry (2005) Half a Pound of Tuppeny Rice, Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 884

Molyneaux, Chris and Jacobs, Kerry (2005) Waiting for Marxo: A short play in two acts, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 16 No. 8,pp. 1059-1066

Jacobs, Kerry (2005) The Sacred and the Profane: Examining the role of accounting in the religious context. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol 18, No. 2, pp. 189-210.

Jacobs, Kerry (2005) Hybridization or Polarization: Are doctors becoming accountants? Financial Accountability and Management, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 135-162.

Jacobs, Kerry , Giuseppe Marcon and Dieter Wit (2004) Cost and Performance Information for Doctors: An international comparison. Management Accounting Research. Vol. 15 No. 3, pp. 337-354.

Jacobs, Kerry and Steve Walker (2004) Accounting and Accountability in the Iona Community. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 361-381.

Bragato, Laura and Jacobs, Kerry (2003) Care Pathways: the road to better health services? Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 164-180 (with).

Jacobs, Kerry (2003) Class Reproduction in Professional Recruitment: Examining the Accounting Profession, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 569-596.

Jacobs, Kerry and Kemp, Jeff (2002) Exploring Accounting Presence and Absence: Case Studies from Bangladesh. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. Vol. 15 No 2, pp. 143-161.

Broadbent, Jane, Jacobs, Kerry and Laughlin, Richard (2001) Richard Organisational Resistance Strategies to Unwanted Accounting and Finance Changes: The Case of General Medical Practice in the UK, Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal Vol. 14 No 5, pp. 565-586.

Jacobs, Kerry (2000) Evaluating Accountability: Finding a place for the Treaty of Waitangi in the New Zealand Public Sector. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal. Vol. 13 No 3, pp. 360-380.

Jacobs, Kerry and Barnett, Pauline (2000) Policy Transfer and Policy Learning: A study of the New Zealand Health Policy 1984-1991. Governance Vol. 13 No. 2, April, pp. 185-214.

Barnett, Pauline and Jacobs, Kerry (2000) Policy Making in a Restructured State: The Case of the 1991 Health Reform Policy in New Zealand. Australian Journal of Public Administration. Vol. 59 No. 1, March, pp. 73-86.

Broadbent, Jane, Jacobs, Kerry and Laughlin, Richard (1999) Comparing Schools in the UK and New Zealand: Individualising and Socialising Accountabilities and some Implications for Management Control. Management Accounting Research, Vol. 10 No. 4, pp. 339-362.

Smith, G. Stevenson and Jacobs, Kerry (1999) New Zealand: The Dynamics Behind a Reinvented Government, International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 347-379.

Brief Biography

Kerry Jacobs is Professor of Accounting at ANU in Canberra. He was previously the Head of Department and Professor of Accounting and La Trobe University in Melbourne and was the Founding Director of the Public Sector Governance and Accountability Research Centre at La Trobe. For eight years Professor Jacobs worked at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland at for five years at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He was born in Kaikoura in New Zealand, completed his bachelors and masters degree from the University of Canterbury and his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.

Professor Jacobs is a qualified accountant, a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants and a fellow of the Australian CPA. Prior to becoming an academic Professor Jacobs worked for the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand and for Firestone Tire Company.

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