Biography
Dr Christine Contessotto is a Lecturer in the Department of Accounting in Deakin Business School. Christine is a Chartered Accountant who has worked in various roles before joining Deakin in 2015. These roles include as an auditor for one of the Big 4, as both a financial and management accountant in a large corporation and as a consultant to many small businesses. Her roles in the tertiary sector include work at Swinburne TAFE, Holmesglen TAFE and Monash University.
Read more on Christine's profileResearch interests
- Auditing and Assurance
Affiliations
- Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ).
- Member, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ).
- Fellow, Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).
- Editorial Advisory Board Member, International Journal of Auditing (IJA).
Teaching interests
- Financial Accounting
- Auditing and Assurance
- Accounting and Society
Professional activities
Awards
- Vice Chancellors’ Award for Teaching Excellence, Deakin University, 2017.
Publications
C Contessotto, W Knechel, Robyn Moroney
(2019), Vol. 38, pp. 121-147, Auditing: a journal of practice and theory, Lakewood Ranch, Fla., C1
The association between audit committee effectiveness and audit risk
C Contessotto, R Moroney
(2014), Vol. 54, pp. 393-418, Accounting & finance, Oxford, Eng., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Industry and Other Funding
KPMG Research Fellow in Integrated Reporting
Prof Barry Cooper, Dr Christine Contessotto, A/Prof Luckmika Perera, Dr Samuel Cheung
- 2020: $96,558
- 2019: $193,117
- 2018: $193,117
- 2017: $193,117
- 2016: $96,558
Key Audit Matters, Materiality Thresholds and Financial Reporting Quality
Dr Christine Contessotto, Dr Shireenjit Johl
- 2016: $4,000
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report