Chris Kelly

Present position: Deputy Dean Faculty of Business and Law
Senior Lecturer in Accounting, School of Accounting Economics and Finance

Campus: Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus
Tel: +61 3 5227 2562
Email: chris.kelly@deakin.edu.au

Academic Qualifications:AGInstTech(Com), GradDipFinMgt MEc UNE, FCPA

Research interests and activity centre around a number of audit related issues, most notably:

• the development of an auditing conceptual framework
• a new architecture for auditing standards
• developing a framework for auditing standards in China
• audit committees and corporate governance
• risk management and quality assurance

• Sutherland-Smith,W & Piesse B & Kelly C, (2009) Higher Education or Education for Hire? Risk Management and Quality Assurance, Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference (APSAC) Brisbane, Australia 28-31 July 2009
• Dimovski,W & Kelly, C,F, (2005) The Gender Composition of Audit Committees in Australia’s Top 200 Companies, 17th Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Wellington New Zealand, November 20-23 2005.
• Dimovski, W & Kelly, CF, (2006) Professional Accounting Qualifications of Audit Committee Membership in Australia’s Top 200 Companies, Turkey Istanbul, November 9 –11 2006.
• Dimovski, W & Kelly, CF (2007) Professional Accounting Qualifications of Audit Committee Membership. Implications for Curriculum and Learning. This paper was published online in The International Journal of Learning, Vol14, Issue 3, 2007.
  
• Porter, B.A, Kelly C.F. & C. Gowthorpe (2001), 'The Audit Expectation-Performance Gap: Some New Evidence from the United Kingdom and Some Insights from Australia', Asia Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Rio de Janerio Brazil, 28-31 October 2001
• Kelly, CF & Liu Zhongwen (2001), 'A Conceptual Framework for Developing Auditing Standards in China: A Comparison with Australia', International Finance and Accounting, Vol. 3, pp. 25 - 33.
• Kelly, C.F. (2000), 'Travelling Audit Fault Lines:  A New Architecture for Auditing Standards - Implications for Audit Standard Setting?', South African Accounting Association Biennial National Congress 2000, Cape Town, South Africa, 3-5 July.
• Kelly, C.F. & Liu, Z.W. (2000), 'A Conceptual Framework for Developing Auditing Standards in China: Comparison with Australia', 12th Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, University of Peking, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 21-24 October.
• Kelly, C., 'Travelling Audits Faultlines: A New Architecture for Auditing Standards: Implications for Chinese Standard Setting?', Third International Symposium on Multinational Business Management, 10-12 December 1999, School of International Business, Nanjing University, People's Republic of China, Proceedings, Vol. 11, pp1366-1376.

• Fellow, Australian Society of CPAs

Chair, Faculty Academic Progress and Discipline Committee
Chair, Advanced Standing and Student Experience Committee