BSc
FCA
Dip FE

BUSINESS SCHOOL GROUP

Accounting & Finance

RESPONSIBILITIES

Programme Director – BSc. Accounting & Finance

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Accounting theory; international financial reporting; the internationalisation of accounting.

PHD SUPERVISION

• Accounting theory,
• International financial reporting,
• The internationalisation of accounting.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Accounting Change in Norway (with HANS SCHWENCKE); European Accounting Review Vol.12, No.3; 2003.

On Economic Reality, Representational Faithfulness and the 'True and Fair Override' (with Simon Archer); Accounting and Business Research, Vol.33, No.1, 2033.

'The Over-riding Importance of Internationalism: a reply to Nobes'; Accounting and Business Research; Vol 31, No. 2; 2001

Issues in Developing Accounting Standards in China: a ContextualPerspective (with Ren Mingchuan); China Accounting & FinanceReview; 2000.

'On the Myth of 'Anglo-Saxon' Financial Accounting' (with Simon Archer); The International Journal of Accounting; Vol 35, No. 4; 2000.

'Accounting Education Change: a Case Study of Tanzania (with RichardBriston and R S O Wallace); Research in Accounting in Emerging EconomiesVol 4; 2000.

Accounting in Transitional Economies: a Case Study of ConsolidationRegulations in the Czech Republic (with Ranko Jelic and Richard Briston); Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies, Vol 4; 2000.

'A Benchmark for the Adequacy of Published Financial Statements'; Accounting and Business Research Vol. 29, No. 3, 1999.

Books

"Financial Reporting", Thomson, 1986, 2nd edition 1990, 3rd edition jointly with Anne Britton, 1993, 4th edition, ditto, 1996, 5th edition, ditto, 1999, 6th edition 2001, 7th edition 2004.

Joint editor with Simon Archer of "European Accounting Guide", Academic Press, 1991 (also published in US as "Comprehensive European Accounting Guide", HBJ, 1991). Second edition, Harcourt Brace Professional, 1995. Third edition 1998. Fourth edition 2001. Fifth edition 2003.

Jointly with Chris Nobes, "A European Introduction to Financial Accounting", Prentice Hall, 1994: Japanese translation, 1998.

Jointly with Simon Archer, "Miller IAS GAAP Guide", Harcourt Brace Professional, 2000. Second edition 2002 . Third edition 2003. Fourth edition 2004, Fifth edition 2005 (forthcoming).

Jointly with Chris Nobes, "Financial Accounting: an international introduction", Pearson, 2001, second edition 2004.

Jointly with Anne Britton and Ann Jorissen, "International Financial Reporting and Analysis", Thomson, 2003, second edition (forthcoming) 200