Accounting Thought and Practice Reform

American Accounting Associations 2021 Thomas J. Burns Biographical Research Award winner "This book is a sympathetic portrait of one of the outstanding accounting thinkers of the twentieth century, offering new insights, from original sources, into his astonishingly varied interests and activities" Professor Geoffrey Whittington, Cambridge University, U.K. Ray Chambers Odyssey is a crucial component of the history of accounting thought and your account is both appropriately sympathetic and highly illuminating. So congratulations to you and your co-authors. -Phil Brown, UWA Professor Emeritus of Accounting The details and evidentiary matter are based upon a source archival project which is the model for what other universities and faculties should seek to establish in order to preserve significant contributions to our discipline's intellectual heritage, and its origins, in cases such as those involving a leading thinker of an age. That alone is a significant take away from the manuscript. - Gary Previts, South Western University Professor of Accounting "Written by our academic colleagues Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean and Martin Persson, this book outlines the history of Ray Chambers contributions across many dimensions, insightfully using original sources." - Phil Hancock, Professor of accounting UWA "This well researched scholarly work demonstrates an extensive use and interpretation of a little known archival collection. The use of the personal archive of Professor Ray Chambers, the foundation Professor of Accounting at the University of Sydney, enables the authors to present Chambers own voice and comments on his experiences and the development of accounting in Australia. The archives are not used as mere illustrations, but are key to the arguments presented by the authors." -Judges Citation, ASA Awards ceremony

Frank Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at The University of Newcastle (Australia) and Honorary Professor of Accounting at The University of Sydney, Australia. Graeme Dean is Emeritus Professor at Sydney University, Australia. Martin Persson is the J. J. Wettlaufer Faculty Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Managerial Accounting and Control at the Ivey Business School, Canada.

1 Growing up: Life on the Fringe Rebutting Groupthink 2 Chambers the Man 3 Historian: Past, Present, Future 4 Archivist: Classifying, Searching for Order 5 Management Educator 6 Theoretician: New System of Accounting CoCoA 7 Practitioner: Theoretician-Cum-Practitioner 8 Reformer of Corporate Financial Reporting 9 Unfinished Business