To celebrate International Woman's Day, we want to showcase some of our female authors. With expertise in a huge range of topics – from audit, to tax through to corporate governance and leadership – we're incredibly proud to have worked with these women to publish high-quality books and textbooks.
Patricia Barker
Patricia Barker is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, having qualified in 1973, the 20th woman to qualify since the inception of the Institute in 1888. She served her articles with Stokes Bros & Pimin Dublin and worked in Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in Manchester. She then became a partner in an accounting practice in Manchester and worked in Manchester University as a principal lecturer. She was appointed lecturer in DCU in 1980 and progressed through senior lecturer, Associate Dean (Business School) and Vice-President (Academic) of DCU. She has completed an MPhil in Gender Studies at Trinity College. Her PhD developed a paradigm of disclosure of financial information to employees in organisations.
Patricia has written The Minority Interest: Women Who Suceed in the Accountancy Profession.
Alison Burnside
Alison Burnside, BA (Accounting), is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, and Partner in the corporate recovery and insolvency department at FPM.
Alison has written The Tax Implications of Business Recovery and Insolvency in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK.
Veronica Canning
Veronica Canning is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, executive mentor and consultant, with 30 years’ experience working at senior level across a wide range of organisations in all sectors and of all sizes, from SMEs to multinationals and the public sector. With her considerable experience, Veronica works with high potential individuals addressing their challenges, including developing an executive presence and building or repairing their personal brands. She also designs and runs group programmes, customised to the challenges facing organisations.
Veronica has written Your Brand: Advance your Career by Building a Personal Brand.
Margaret D'Arcy
Margaret D’Arcy holds a BA in Accounting and Finance from DCU and is an Associate of Chartered Accountants Ireland. She has extensive experience in delivering courses for professional accounting examinations. Margaret has been lecturing for almost years and has taught both management and financial accounting for both third level and professional education courses. Previous to her lecturing and teaching career, Margaret held a number of roles in financial institutions in such areas as retail banking, treasury and international operations.
Margaret has written An Introduction to Financial Accounting.
Gabrielle Dillon
Gabrielle Dillon is an AITI Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and a Director of Dermot O’Brien & Associates. With over 18 years’ experience in VAT, she previously worked as a VAT Manager for BDO. Gabrielle has lectured in VAT for the Irish Tax Institute as well as other professional bodies. She is the regular author of VAT Cases & VAT News in the Irish Tax Review and is a member of its Editorial Board.
Gabrielle has co-authored VAT on Property: Law and Pratice (2nd Edition).
Teresa Harrington
Teresa was an audit partner with PwC and led the firm’s services to the not-for-profit sector until 2015. She has over 20 years’ experience with PwC providing a full range of services to charities operating in Ireland. Since 2015, Teresa has continued to work with and provide consulting services to the not-for-profit sector.
Teresa has written Accounting and Reporting by Charities in the Republic of Ireland (2nd Edition).
Clare Kearney
Clare Kearney is a Fellow of Chartered Accoutnants Ireland and lectures at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). She has a BSc(Mgmt). Clare trained as an accountant with Deloitte and worked as a financial trainer before joining WIT. She has served as an examiner for Chartered Accountants Ireland and has lectured for many of the professional accounting bodies. Clare is also a member of the AIB Centre for Finance and Business Research at WIT.
Clare has co-authored Case Studies in Advanced Financial Reporting.
Louise Kelly
Louise Kelly is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and is Audit Partner at Grant Thornton in Belfast. Louise joined Grant Thornton in 2000, having completed a BA (Hons.) in Accounting and Finance at Manchester Metropolitan University. After 9 years working on a range of leading audit clients she was made Head of Training and Standards before being appointed as Head of Audit and then Partner - Audit at Grant Thornton (NI) LLP in 2014. She has lectured at FAE Core and Elective levels the Chartered Accountants Ireland professional course and is a member of the Institute’s Representation & Technical Policy Committee.
Louise has written Advanced Auditing and Assurance.
Ethna Kennon
Ethna Kennon, FCA, AITI is a Director in KPMG Ireland’s indirect tax group. Ethna has over 15 years’ experience specialising in VAT and providing indirect tax advisory and compliance services to a wide range of domestic and international businesses. She also lectures on VAT matters for Chartered Accountants Ireland and the Irish Tax Institute.
Ethna has co-authored A Practical Guide to Value-added Tax.
Penelope Kenny
Penelope Kenny is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, a former member of the Institute’s Council and also former Chairman of the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants. With over 20 years’ accounting experience, she is principal at ArtsGovernance, which offers consulting on corporate governance specialising in the arts and cultural sectors. Penelope is a non-executive director, treasurer and head of the finance and audit committee of a large non-profit organisation with assets of over €500 million. She holds an MA degree from University College Dublin, for which her thesis was corporate governance.
Penelope has written Corporate Governance for the Irish Arts Sector.
Rachel Killeen
Rachel Killeen is a marketing and communications consultant working with entrepreneurs and professional services firms to help them build business using integrated, strategic digital and traditional marketing plans. Rachel has worked with the RBS Group and also Danske Bank, focusing on marketing to corporate, treasury and SME clients. In 2007, she founded Killeen Communications Limited and now works with a range of clients from financial services and professional firms to FMCGs.
Rachel has written Digital Marketing and Client Science: The Five Cs Marketing Plan for Professionals.
Sheila Killian
Sheila Killian holds a BA in Mathematics, an MBS focused on earnings management and a PhD in taxation. She qualified as an associate of the Irish Tax Institute in 1989 and as a Chartered Accountant in 1992. Her research, spanning CSR, accounting, taxation and development issues, has been published on five continents. She has worked in third level education in South Africa and Finland, and lectures in corporate social responsibility and finance at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick. Sheila previously worked in taxation with Ernst & Young, KPMG and Arthur Andersen, and in the aviation finance industry. Sheila is the founding Chair of Soweto Connection, an Irish non-profit organisation working with South African township communities.
Sheila has written Corporate Social Responsibility: A Guide, with Irish Experiences.
Collette Kirwan
Collette Kirwan FCA, BBS, PhD is a lecturer in accounting at Waterford Institute of Technology. She trained as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers where she subsequently worked as a manager in Audit Services. Collette first joined the School of Business at Waterford Institute of Technology in 2005. Between 2012 and 2016, Collette was a lecturer in accounting at University College Dublin where she lectured on the Master of Accounting and the Professional Diploma in Corporate Governance. Over her career, Collette has lectured at undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education levels on a range of subjects including auditing, financial reporting, financial management, corporate governance and business research methods. In 2013, Collette was awarded her PhD from University College Dublin. The study examines the role of non-executive directors on boards of private family firms. Collette’s research interests include corporate governance, boards of directors, governance of family firms, governance of not-for-profit organisations, financial reporting and auditing. During her academic career, Collette has presented at a number of international and national conferences and has published articles in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ) and Accounting in Europe. She has also published articles on corporate governance in Accountancy Ireland.
Collette has co-authored Corporate Social Responsibility: A Guide, with Irish Experiences.
Mariannunziata Liguori
Mariannunziata Liguori is Senior Lecturer in Management Accounting and Director of the MSc Accounting and Finance at Queen’s Management School, Belfast, where she moved after a visiting period at the University of Alberta in Canada. She was awarded a PhD, investigating processes and organisational dynamics of accounting change in the public sector, by Bocconi University, Milan, where she has also previously worked. Mariannunziata is a member of the editorial board of the public-sector and not-for-profit journal Financial Accountability & Management. She has been the secretary of the Public Services and Charities Special Interest Group of the British Accounting and Finance Association since 2015.
Mariannunziata has co-authored Charity Accounting and Reporting at a Time of Change.
Vaeni Mac Donnell
Vaeni Mac Donnell, LLB (Hons, Dip HE, MSc(Ed)) is the founder and Managing Director of Cenit College, which has become one of the largest training companies in Ireland. Vaeni has over 20 years' experience in lecturing and was formerly the Deputy Head of the law department at Griffith College Dublin. She is one of the leading lecturers in Ireland in the areas of company and business law.
Vaeni has written An Introduction to Business Law (2nd Edition).
June Menton
June Menton FCA holds a degree in Business and Legal Studies from UCD. She is a technician member of the Irish Taxation Institute. She completed her training in a medium-sized accountancy firm, O'Kelly and Co., before joining Deloitte where she worked as an auditor and management consultant. She has been Financial Controller of the Irish Sports Council since 2002.
June has written Crack the Books: Accounting for Non-Accountants.
Christine Nangle
Christine Nangle B. Comm., ACA, Finance Manager of the Institute of Technology Tallaght where she is also an associate lecturer in the Department of Accountancy & Professional Studies. She is also director of a software development company. Christine has extensive practical and lecturing experience in auditing and assurance, and financial reporting. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant following her professional training with Deloitte and subsequently worked in industry, including eight years with Coca-Cola Hellenic Ireland, where she was Head of Internal Audit and latterly Commercial Finance Manager.
Christine has co-authored External Auditing and Assurance (3rd Edition) (Revised).
Kerri O’Connell
Kerri O’Connell FCA, AITI, TEP, has been advising small and medium-sized businesses in Ireland for 20 years. The daughter of two entrepreneurs, she is constantly inspired by those with the ideas and commitment to start and grow businesses. Kerri’s education includes an international law degree, as well as accountancy, taxation and succession planning qualifications. She trained and worked in two of the ‘Big 4’ accountancy firms and was tax partner in a medium-sized accountancy practice for 11 years. More recently, Kerri has worked inindustry and is the founder of tax consulting firm, Obvio Tax Services, advising on each phase of the business cycle: start-up, expansion and sale/succession.
Kerri has written Small and Expanding Businesses: Getting the Tax Right.
Ros O'Shea
Ros O’Shea, BComm, MAcc, FCA, AITI, Dip Corp Gov, is a highly experienced business leader with a career spanning almost 20 years working with the board and executive of two of Ireland’s largest and most-respected companies: CRH plc, where she was Head of Group Compliance & Ethics, and Smurfit Kappa Group plc. An Irish Chartered Accountant by profession, Ros is a partner in Acorn Governance Solutions, sits on the boards of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and the Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital, is Programme Director for the Diploma in Governance & Compliance at the Irish Management Institute and also runs programmes for the Institute of Directors on these topics.
Ros has written Leading with Integrity: A Practical Guide to Business Ethics.
Terry Prone
Terry Prone is Ireland's best known business trainer and media commentator. The author of 20 books, she is a founder and Chair of The Communications Clinic, Dublin. She has served on a number of public service boards, including the Arts Council and the Independent Radio and Television Commission. Terry has written for every national newspaper and has a weekly column with the Irish Examiner.
Terry has co-authored This Business of Writing.
Lisa Sturgeon
Lisa Sturgeon, LLB, is a graduate in Law and Accountancy from Queen’s University, Belfast. Lisa completed her legal training at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queen’s University and now works as a solicitor in the Belfast firm, Napier & Sons Solicitors. Lisa specialises in the area of employment law, providing advice on all aspects of employment matters as well as representing clients at the Industrial Tribunal and Fair Employment Tribunal.
Lisa has written An Introduction to Business Law in Northern Ireland (2nd Edition).
Anne Marie Ward
Anne Marie Ward is Professor of Accounting at Ulster University (Jordanstown). Her teaching specialities are managerial finance and financial accounting. She has taught both topics at undergraduate and at postgraduate levels, and she also lectured for Chartered Accountants Ireland for 18 years. Anne Marie has also published articles and research reports in professional and academic journals.
Anne Marie has written Finance: Theory and Practice (3rd Edition) and An Introduction to Personal Finance (4th Edition).
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