Associate Professor

• B.Bus. - Griffith University (Australia), 1997
• PhD. -   Griffith University (Australia), 2001 

Bio

Dr Wendy James is a fully certified Chartered Accountant as well as a Certified Management Accountant. She currently works as an associate professor for the College of Business Sciences at Zayed University. Before that Dr James was a senior lecturer and researcher at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Wendy was involved with the Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies attached to that university. Wendy has a wealth of experience in teaching a number of courses in both Financial & Management accounting as well as Information Systems and has taught at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at a number of universities in Queensland, Australia, Including Griffith University, University of Southern Queensland and Bond University. Dr James also acts as external consultant and is involved in professional teaching in both the public and private sector. Prior to teaching Dr James was involved in a number of management and research positions both in industry and the public sector.  In 1997 Wendy was awarded the Women’s Academic Achievement Award which enabled her to further her interest in research, as a result she commenced her PhD. The topic of her PhD centred on management controls systems change as a result of public sector reform. The study was conducted within a corporatised utility organisation in Queensland that involved the examination and analysis of a number of management accounting systems.  That is, performance measurement/management, budgeting, pricing/costing, transfer pricing, incentive schemes, strategic management and administrative and accountability structures.  It looked at the interrelationships between them and how they combined interactively to form a cohesive management control system in its entirety.  It also explored cultural, power and political issues, and how these inherent aspects affected these systems.  Dr James has a number of published articles in prominent accounting journals to which she also referees up and coming research articles by other authors. Wendy has also presented her research at a number of conferences for such organisations as, for example, the Asian Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting, the British Accounting Association and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Office: Dubai Academic City, B wing – L2-029
Phone: 971 4 4021443
Email: Wendy.James@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

Bachelor of Science courses offered in Accounting, Internships and Capstones.

Research and Professional Activities

Wendy’s current research interests include: management accounting systems, management control systems, performance management systems, organisational change, public sector financial management and strategic management accounting in the private, public and not for profit sectors.