Biography
Dr Neil Dunne is Programme Director for Trinity's Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting. An award-winning lecturer and researcher, he is a Chartered Accountant with many years' experience in both practice and industry. As a financial controller in industry, he was responsible for financing commercial assets valued at almost 1 billion euro. In addition to a Doctorate from University College Dublin, Neil holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Cork and a Masters degree in Finance from Trinity, with first-class honours achieved. Prior to joining Trinity, Neil held positions in two other educational institutions in Dublin for almost seven years. He has been involved in course and syllabus design for a range of institutions in Ireland and France. Teaching responsibilities in Trinity include undergraduate and postgraduate modules in financial reporting. Neil also engages extensively in thesis supervision within the School and is a college tutor. Neil's research takes an interdisciplinary and critical approach to audit and financial reporting, and mobilizes concepts such as impression management, strategic framing, and the influence of institutional logics. In connection with this, he has published his work in major international accountancy journals and presented at a range of international conferences. Neil has also served as a judge at Chartered Accountants Ireland's Published Accounts Awards.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
- Dunne, N.J., Auditors in, editor(s)Brian Lucey, Eamon Maher and Eugene O'Brien , Recalling the Celtic Tiger, Dublin, Peter Lang, 2019, pp21 - 22, [Neil J. Dunne]Book Chapter, 2019
- Dunne, N.J., IAS 39 in, editor(s)Brian Lucey, Eamon Maher and Eugene O'Brien , Recalling the Celtic Tiger, Dublin, Peter Lang, 2019, pp167 - 168, [Neil J. Dunne]Book Chapter, 2019
- Dunne, N.J,. Brennan, N.M. and Kirwan, C.E., Impression management and Big Four auditors: Scrutiny at a public inquiry, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 88, (101170), 2021, p1 - 20Journal Article, 2021
- Dunne, N.J,. Brennan, N.M. and Kirwan, C.E., How the Big Four maintain and defend logic equilibrium at concurrent performances, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, (102479), 2022, p1 - 20Journal Article, 2022
- Dunne, N.J., Calm in the storm: Managing online assessment during a pandemic. Available at https://academic-practice.com/2021/10/04/333/ , 2021, -Miscellaneous
- Dunne, N.J., Blameless and powerless: How the Big Four react to public scrutiny. Available at https://cobsinsights.org/2021/09/23/blameless-and-powerless-how-the-big-four-react-to-public-scrutiny/, 2021, -Miscellaneous
Research Expertise
My research takes an interdisciplinary and interpretive approach to audit and financial reporting. In particular, I apply sociological and philosophical concepts to study the behavior and experiences of individuals and firms in the accounting and auditing professions. I apply concepts popularized by the sociologist Erving Goffman, such as impression management and strategic framing, to organizational contexts, such as the behavior of accounting firms in their annual reviews and in their responses to the scrutiny emanating from public and regulatory inquiries. For instance, building on prior sociological and organizational work, I devised a typology of impression management strategies that accounting firms use when defending against public scrutiny. I am also interested in the nature, origin and influence of institutional logics on large and small accounting firms, and in how these institutional logics (e.g., the professional and commercial logics, amongst others) affect and are affected by the individuals that comprise these firms. Much of my research has achieved not only academic impact via publication in leading international journals, but has also achieved practitioner impact through publication on websites such as the Council of Business and Society.
Economics, Business & Management, Economics, Business & Management, Sociology and Social Work, Sociology and Social Work,
Recognition
- Sue Hrasky Doctoral Scholarship, Financial Reporting and Business Communication Research Unit April 2015
- Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School June 2015
- Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School June 2019
- Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School June 2020
- Research Excellence Award, Trinity Business School June 2021
- Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School June 2022
- Winner of Doctoral Research Funding Competition, Irish Accounting & Finance Association May 2015
- Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School June 2021
- Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School June 2017
- Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School June 2018
- Winner of Doctoral Research Funding Competition, Irish Accounting & Finance Association May 2016
- British Accounting and Finance Association Present
- European Accounting Association Present
- Irish Accounting and Finance Association Present
- Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland Present
- Alternative Accounting Research Network Present
- ACCA Global Education Committee Present
- British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) IPSIG Committee Present
- Textbook reviewer, Oxford University Press Ongoing
- Textbook reviewer, Pearson Publishers Ongoing
- Reviewer, Accounting, Finance and Governance Review Ongoing
- Reviewer, European Accounting Review Ongoing
- Reviewer, European Accounting Review Ongoing
- Textbook reviewer, Oxford University Press Ongoing
- Reviewer, British Accounting Review Ongoing
- Reviewer, British Accounting Review Ongoing
- Facilitator and Mentor, IAFA Doctoral Colloquium. Ongoing
- Reviewer, Accounting, Finance and Governance Review Ongoing
- Textbook reviewer, Pearson Publishers Ongoing
- Reviewer, Critical Perspectives on Accounting Ongoing
- Reviewer, Contemporary Accounting Research Ongoing