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Jayne Godfrey

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Jayne Godfrey
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sydney, University of Queensland
Thesis
  • Accounting for foreign currency : an efficient contracting portfolio approach (1990)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland, Australian National University

Jayne Maree Godfrey is an Australian business and accounting academic, and is an emeritus professor at the Australian National University, specialising in accounting regulation and sustainability accounting and reporting.

Academic career

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Godfrey completed a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Melbourne, a Master of Economics at the University of Sydney, and a PhD titled Accounting for foreign currency: an efficient contracting portfolio approach at the University of Queensland.[1] Godfrey joined the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University in 2008, and then moved to the College of Business and Economics at Australian National University in 2011.[2] Godfrey was Dean of the University of Auckland Business School from 2017 to 2020.[2][3][4] Godfrey is the director of the Analytics Institute of Australia, and professor emeritus at Australian National University.[5][2]

Godfrey is a member of a number of boards, including the Australian Accounting Standards Board, the Water Accounting Standards Board, and the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Board.[6]

She has served as President of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand.[6]

Godfrey's research focuses on accounting regulation, sustainability accounting and reporting, and the impacts of accounting policy.[5][7] Godfrey led a process to develop a water accounting standard for Australia, based on an Intergovernmental Agreement on a National Water Initiative.[2]

Honours and awards

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In 2001 Godfrey was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal for service to Australian society in business leadership.[8] The same year she won a Telstra Businesswoman of the Year award in the Corporate and Government section.[9]

Godfrey was elected a life member of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand for her service to the academic accounting profession, and won the 2008 AFAANZ Award for Outstanding Contributions to Accounting and Finance Practice.[10]

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ Godfrey, Jayne Maree (1990). Accounting for foreign currency: an efficient contracting portfolio approach (Thesis). University of Queensland. doi:10.14264/221631.
  2. ^ a b c d "Prof Jayne Godfrey". Outside Opinion. 31 May 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Breadcrumbs List. Home News and opinion EQUIS reaccreditation affirms Business School's global standing - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Business Masters celebrates '5 Years, 10 Cohorts' - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b Director (Research Services Division). "Professor Jayne Godfrey". researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Jayne Godfrey: Managing the world's most precious resource". the world lecture project. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Accounting Theory 5E – About the authors". www.johnwiley.com.au. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  8. ^ "Professor Jayne Maree Godfrey". Australian Honours Search Facility. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  9. ^ "2005-2001 Telstra Business Women's Award Winners". Telstra. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  10. ^ "Awards - Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand". www.afaanz.org. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
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