Professor Yvonne Joyce
- Professor in Accounting (Accounting & Finance)
telephone:
0141 330 7689
email:
Yvonne.Joyce@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Yvonne graduated from the University of Strathclyde with a first-class Honours degree in Accounting and Economics in 1997. Upon graduating, she commenced her professional accountancy training with Arthur Andersen, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant (with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)) in 2000. During her time at Arthur Andersen, Yvonne was based in the audit and assurance department and the corporate restructuring department, where she was involved in business reviews and formal insolvency appointments. Yvonne moved to a professional lecturing post at ICAS in 2002, where she also assumed responsibility for the assessment of work-based competencies, and then to Strathclyde University in 2006. She joined the Accounting and Finance subject group at the University of Glasgow in 2011. Yvonne was awarded her PhD by the University of Glasgow in 2021.
Research interests
Yvonne is a member of the Accounting research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Corporate insolvency
- Financial distress
- Corporate crises
- Accountancy and insolvency professions
- Accounting education and professionalisation
Grants
ICAS seedcorn grant (£806). Choice and competition in the Scottish administration market
Supervision
Yvonne is interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:
- Corporate insolvency and financial distress
- Corporate crises
- Accountancy and insolvency professions (UK and globally)
- Accounting education and professionalisation
Current PhD students
- Althumairi, Hind Jamal I
Examining the relationship between accounting education and the profession in Saudi Arabia with a specific reference to data analytics
Completed PhD students
Flanagan, C. (2019). Career trajectories, personal reflexivity and the shifting visibility of social background: Experiences and perceptions of social mobility in the UK accountancy profession.
Teaching
Yvonne has broad teaching experience across a wide range of subjects in both accounting and finance and across all levels, including professional education. Yvonne currently teaches on the BAcc, an Honours level option (Corporate Insolvency). At postgraduate taught level, Yvonne teaches Advanced International Corporate Reporting for the MAcc programme. In terms of prior teaching experience, Yvonne has taught extensively corporate finance at UG, PGT and professional levels and accounting theory, with further teaching experience in management accounting.
Additional information
Yvonne has been a member of the ICAS Insolvency Committee from 2014 and a member of the ICAS Academic Panel since 2019. She has been the Accounting Cluster Lead since 2019, having been the alternate from 2016. Yvonne is also the Chair of BAFA Scotland (the Scottish area group of the British Accounting and Finance Association).