Kerry researches, teaches and designs curricula in strategic management accounting, which looks at how managers use financial and non-financial information and analyses to deliver the organisation's strategy and make effective judgments and decisions around managing performance. She supervises Honours and postgraduate research students, and her research investigates when managers make effective decisions incorporating strategy and performance information (including the balanced scorecard), and how new managers can learn to make better decisions using this information.

She publishes in leading international academic journals (ABDC A* ranked): The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and the Journal of Management Accounting Research. Kerry is an Editor of Accounting and Finance, and Editorial Board member of Behavioral Research in Accounting and the Journal of Management Accounting Research. Her research has received external funding from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ).