Assistant Professor in Accounting (Room 2.23)

01 449 8549

desmond.gibney@ncirl.ie

Key Responsibilities at NCI

• Assistant Professor in Accounting
• Programme Director, BA (Honours) in Accounting

Education

• Manchester Business School, University of Manchester: PhD (ongoing)
• UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School: MBA (2007)
• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants: Fellow (2006)
• National College of Ireland: Certificate in Learning and Teaching (2005)
• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants: Associate (2000)
• Trinity College Dublin: B Sc (Mgmt) (1989)

Academic Experience

• National College of Ireland: 2003 to date
• UCD Quinn School of Business: 2002 to 2003

Industrial Experience

• Deloitte: 2001 to 2002
• Baker Tilly: 1998 to 2001

Research Interests

• Management Accounting
• Capital Budgeting
• Public Sector

Recent Funding

Runner-up in Irish Accounting & Finance Association Doctoral Funding competition 2011

Professional Body Membership

• Fellow of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• Irish Accounting & Finance Association (Council member, 2010 to 2014)
• International Project Finance Association
• MBA Association of Ireland

Key Publications

Published International Journal Articles

• Quinn, Martin, Hiebl, Martin R.W. and Gibney, Desmond (2024) "Strategic expansion – Guinness Nigeria, management accounting information and upper echelons". Management & Organizational History. pp. 1-27. ISSN 1744-9367. DOI: 10/1080/17449359.2024.2412043
• Quinn, Martin and Gibney, Desmond (2018) "Accounting at an Irish maltster – the accounting practices of Bennetts of Ballinacurra in the 1920s and 1930s". Accounting History Review, 28 (1 - 2). pp. 61-84. ISSN 2155-286X. DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2018.1440610

Book Chapters

• Gibney, Desmond (2018) "Government proposals to acquire the liquor trade in the First World War: The case of Macardle, Moore and Company, Brewers". In: Accounting for Alcohol: An Accounting History of Brewing, Distilling and Viniculture. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 44-68. ISBN 9781138737334.

Conference Papers

• Gibney, Desmond (2017) "Making sense of some of the accounting numbers for Irish Water". In: Irish Accounting and Finance Conference, 18th-19th May 2017, Athlone Institute of Technology, Athlone, Co. Westmeath.
• Gibney, Desmond (2013) "A case study of Capital Budgeting Process in the Irish Public Sector: Metro North and the Parliamentary Agenda". In: Irish Transport Network Conference, September 2013 Trinity College Dublin.
• “The Practice of Capital Budgeting in Irish State-Owned Utility Companies”: papers based on PhD presented at academic conferences, including Irish Accounting & Finance Association (IAFA) (in 2007, 2012 & 2013); Irish Transportation Research Network (ITRN) (in 2013), Irish Academy of Management (IAM) (in 2011); New Public Sector(NPS) Seminar in University of Edinburgh (in 2011), European Network for Research in Organisational and Accounting Change (ENROAC) (in 2011) and Comparative International Governmental Accounting Research (CIGAR) (in 2013).
• “The Practice of Capital Budgeting in Irish State-Owned Utility Companies”: papers based on PhD research presented at Doctoral conferences, including Irish Accounting & Finance Association (IAFA) (in 2009 & 2011); Manchester Business School (MBS) (in 2008) and New Public Sector (NPS) Seminar in University of Edinburgh (in 2009).