Meet Our People - Helen Yang

Helen Yang

Helen Yang joined Victoria University in early 2007. Helen has brought to her role as an accounting academic, as an additional advantage, her knowledge of China, including: business and culture; education system; and language. Apart from her formal qualifications in accounting, Helen holds qualifications in education at master’s level. Helen has completed her CPA program with outstanding results for which she has received a number of awards. She is currently undertaking a PhD in accounting in which she is making strong progress.

Helen’s range of teaching experiences; teaching accounting in Australia and at Australian off-shore partner institutions in Asian-Pacific countries; as well as her previous teaching experience in China in cross cultural communication are relevant to her teaching and research activities. Helen teaches in the area of financial accounting. She consistently achieves positive overall student satisfaction ratings. As the Faculty's Offshore Program Coordinator in the Victoria University – Liaoning degree program since mid 2008, Helen has been further exposed to the issues of teaching and learning at offshore Chinese campuses. Helen’s teaching practice in delivering financial accounting to offshore Chinese students has been formally recognised by Victoria University as an exemplar in teaching and learning.

Helen’s research is focused on international accounting and corporate environmental reporting by Chinese companies, and transnational accounting education; an area which she has a number of international publications, and has been successful in a number external and internal research grants.

Read more about Helen’s recent publication, ‘Western concepts, Chinese context: A note on teaching accounting offshore’.