Professor John Richard Edwards

Qualifications

B. Sc. Econ. (Wales), M. Sc. Econ. (Wales); Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales; Associate, Institute of Taxation; Fellow, Higher Education Academy.

Teaching profile

Advanced Financial Reporting (MSc Accounting and Finance);Development of accounting (BSc Accounting);Financial Accounting (BSc Accounting)

Research interests

- Professionalisation of accounting
- The potential of accounting treatises published in the earl modern period for our understanding of the accounting craft.
- History of management accounting.
- Accounting education in historical contexts

Selected publications

Edwards, J. R. and S. P. Walker. 2010. Lifestyle, status and occupational differentiation in Victorian accountancy, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 35 (1): 2-22.

Edwards, J. R. (2009) A commercial education for ‘the middling sort of people’ in mercantilist Britain. British Accounting Review, 41(4): 240-255.

Edwards, J. R., Dean, G. and Clarke, F. (2009) Merchants’ accounts, performance assessment and decision making in mercantilist Britain, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34 (5): 551–570.

Edwards, J. R. and Walker, S. P. (eds.) 2008. The Routledge Companion to accounting history. London: Routledge.

Edwards, J. R. and Walker, S. P. 2008. Occupational differentiation and exclusion in early Canadian
accountancy, Accounting and Business Research 38 (5): 373-91.

Noguchi, M. and Edwards, J. R. 2008. Harmonising intergroup relations within a professional body:
The case of the ICAEW, British Accounting Review, 40 (2): 123–147.

Noguchi, M. and Edwards, J. R. (2008) Professional leadership and oligarchy: the case of the ICAEW,
Accounting Historians Journal, 35(2): 1-42.

Edwards, J. R. and Walker, S. P. Accountants in late nineteenth century Britain: a spatial,
demographic and occupational profile, Accounting and Business Research, 37 (1): 43-74.

Boyns, T. & Edwards, J. R. 2007. The development of cost and management accounting in Britain,. In C. S. Chapman, A. G. Hopwood & M. D. Shields (Eds.) History of Management Accounting Research, Volume 2: 969-1034. London: Elsevier.

Edwards J R, Anderson M. & Chandler R. 2007. Claiming a jurisdiction for the “public accountant” in England prior to organisational fusion. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 32: 61-100.

Edwards J R, Anderson M. & Chandler R. 2005. How not to mount a professional project: the formation of the ICAEW in 1880. Accounting and Business Research, 35: 229-48.

Noguchi, M. & Edwards, J. R. 2004. Accounting principles, internal conflict and the State: the case of the ICAEW. Abacus, 40: 280-320.

Noguchi, M. & Edwards, J. R. 2004. Corporatism and unavoidable imperatives: Recommendations on Accounting Principles and the ICAEW memorandum to the Cohen committee. Accounting Historians Journal, 27: 151-8.

Edwards, J. R., Boyns, T. & Matthews, M. 2003. Costing, pricing and politics in the British steel industry, 1918-1967. Management Accounting Research, 14: 25-49.

Edwards, J. R. & Greener, H. T. 2003. Introducing ‘mercantile’ bookkeeping into British central government, 1828-1844. Accounting and Business Research, 33: 51-64.

Carnegie, G.D., Edwards, J.R. & West, B. 2003. Understanding the dynamics of the Australian accounting profession: a prosopographical study of the founding members of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants, Victoria, 1886 to 1908. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 16: 790-820.

Edwards, J. R., Boyns, T. & Matthews, M. 2002. Standard costing and budgetary control in the British iron and steel industry – a study of accounting change. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 15: 12-45.

Edwards, J. R., Coombs, H. M. & Greener, H. T. 2002. British central government and “the mercantile system of double entry” bookkeeping: a study of ideological conflict. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 27: 637-58.

Edwards, J. R. 2001. Accounting regulation and the professionalization process: an historical essay concerning the significance of P. H. Abbott. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 12: 675-96.

Carnegie, G.D. & Edwards, J.R. 2001. The construction of the professional accountant: the case of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants, Victoria (1886). Accounting, Organizations and Society, 26: 301-25.

Edwards, J.R & Chandler, R. 2001. Contextualizing the process of accounting regulation: a study of nineteenth-century British friendly societies. Abacus, 37: 188-216.

Matthews, D., Anderson, M. & Edwards, J. R. 1998. The priesthood of industry. the rise of the professional accountant in British management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edwards, J. R. 1989. A history of financial accounting. London: Routledge.

Activities

Co-editor, Accounting, Business & Financial History.
Editorial board member of: Abacus; Accounting and Business Research; Research in Accounting Regulation; Accounting Historians Journal; De Computis. Revista Española de Historia de la Contabilidad
Chief Examiner in Financial Accounting, The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators