Professor Jayne Godfrey

PhD Qld MEc Syd BCom(Hons) Melb DipEd (MSCV) FCPA FCA, MAICD
President, Academic Board
Professor of Financial Accounting

Professor Jayne Godfrey is President, Monash University Academic Board, and Professor of Financial Accounting in the Faculty of Business and Economics. Academic Board is the statutory body responsible to the Monash University Council for supervising and directing the academic affairs of the university. This includes maintaining high standards in both teaching and research (Monash University Statute 2.1).

As well as an extensive list of publications in high quality internationally refereed journals, her publications include the leading Australian text on accounting theory, now in its sixth edition. She serves on editorial boards, and referees for numerous international and Australian journals.

For her service to Australian society through business leadership, Jayne was awarded Australia's Centenary Medal. She served for five years on the Australian Accounting Standards Board, which sets accounting rules with the force of law for Australian companies, and she is a past Telstra Businesswoman of the Year national finalist. She has been President of the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand, and frequently addresses international and national business and community fora concerning accounting, finance, and corporate governance research issues.

Jayne's research focuses mostly upon the role of accounting in the generation and distribution of economic resources. Internationally, Jayne has been a member of the Publications Committee of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, a Reader at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Invited Visiting Distinguished Professor, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV, and held visiting appointments at the Universities of Arizona, Auckland , and Montesquieu, Bordeaux . She has been a research advisor to several organisations.