John Richard Edwards
Professor
Accounting
Cardiff University
United Kingdom
Biography
Before entering academe J. R. Edwards qualified as a chartered accountant in the London office of Cooper Brothers & Co. (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). His research interests embrace various aspects of accounting history with outputs published in academic journals, professional journals and in book form. He has held numerous editorial appointments and is currently a member of the editorial advisory board of Accounting and Business Research and an editorial board member of: Abacus; Accounting History Review; Research in Accounting Regulation; Accounting Historians Journal; De Computis. Revista Española de Historia de la Contabilidad.
Research Interest
Auditor independence and conflict of interest, Accounting at military manufacturing establishments, Asset valuation and profit measurement, Professionalisation of accounting.
Publications
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Edwards, J. R. 2016. Whinney and Waterhouse's government assignment 1887-1888: a study of its significance. Accounting Historians Journal 43(1), pp. 1-32. (10.2308/0148-4184.43.1.1)
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Boyns, T. and Edwards, J. 2016. The advent of double entry based costing practices in the British engineering industry: Ransomes of Ipswich, 1856-1863. Accounting History Review 26(3), pp. 171-190. (10.1080/21552851.2016.1218958)
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Edwards, J. R. 2017. Towards constructing the governable worker in nineteenth-century Britain. Critical Perspectives on Accounting (10.1016/j.cpa.2017.05.001)
