Collette Kirwan

Dr Collette Kirwan is a lecturer in accounting at the Quinn School of Business, UCD. She qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers where she subsequently worked as a manager in audit services. Prior to taking up her academic post at University College Dublin, Collette was a lecturer in the School of Business at Waterford Institute of Technology. In 2011, Collette was awarded the Waterford Institute of Technology Teaching Excellence Award.
Latest Articles by Collette Kirwan
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25 October, 2017
The guardianship circle: praxis of governance and audit committeesWhy is the practice of corporate governance so different from best practice standards? Effective corporate governance “in practice” is fluid, context-specific and depends on practitioners’ skills, initiative and adaptation.
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5 October, 2017
Information asymmetry is good for effective boardsCommentators often complain that non-executives need more information. But recent research suggests that it is information asymmetry that actually makes non-executives effective.