Accounting & Finance Staff Listing

Ms Crean is an Accounting lecturer. She obtained a degree in Accounting and Finance and a first class Masters in Accounting from Dublin City University. She is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and prior to joining University of Galway Ms Crean worked as an audit trainee at KPMG in Dublin, while obtaining her profession accounting qualification. She then spent some time working in corporate finance in a practice role and as a financial accountant in an industry role.  

Andrea lectures in Financial Accounting and Auditing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the School of Business & Economics and is also involved in the management and co-ordination of the KPMG Summer School, run for both Masters groups, the Masters in Accounting and Masters in International Accounting and Analytics.

Andrea is currently pursuing her PhD in the area of Innovation of auditing through the use of Big Data and Data Analytics and has recently attended and presented her work to date at doctoral symposiums, including the IAFA (Irish Accounting and Finance Association) symposium in May 2019, September 2020, May 2021 and June 2023 and the EARNet (European Auditing Research Network) symposium in Parma, Italy in September 2019 and September 2021. Andrea received a doctoral scholarship to attend and present a research submission at the European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual PhD forum in Bucharest, Romania in May 2021. Andrea is attending the European Accounting Research (EAA) Annual Symposium in Bucharest, Romania in May 2024 to present her paper, co-authored with Dr Emer Curtis entitled 'Negotiating the Boundaries between audit and data analytics'.