Robert Henry Parker (September 1932 – 24 July 2016)Nobes, Christophe
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Retrieved 2016-10-31. was a British accounting scholar, and Emeritus Professor at the

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2015. Accessed 23-03-2015 known for his work on "comparative international accounting" and the history of the accounting profession in Britain.Armstrong, Peter. "The rise of accounting controls in British capitalist enterprises." ''Accounting, Organizations and Society'' 12.5 (1987): 415–436. Born and raised in

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, Parker obtained his MA in economics at the

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, and gained his licence as chartered accountant in 1958.Nobes, Christopher
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in: The History of Accounting (RLE Accounting): An International Encyclopedia.

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eds. p. 450–1 Subsequently, Parker started working as accountant in Nigeria, and Australia, where he became a lecturer at the

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, and then a sub-dean at the

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. In 1966 he returned to England, where he joined the faculty of the

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. He also lectured at

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and at the University of Dundee before he was appointed Professor of Accounting at the

in 1976. Parker's main research interest was "the accountancy profession worldwide in its international and historical contexts." Parker died in

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on 24 July 2016 at age 83.

Selected publications

* Parker, Robert Henry, and Geoffrey Colin Harcourt, eds. ''Readings in the Concept and Measurement of Income.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. * Parker, Robert Henry. ''Management accounting: An historical perspective.'' Macmillan, 1969. * Kitchen, Jack, and Robert Henry Parker. ''Accounting thought and education: Six English pioneers.'' Taylor & Francis, 1980. * Parker, Robert Henry. ''The development of the accountancy profession in Britain to the early twentieth century.'' Vol. 5. Academy of Human Studies, 1986. * Parker, Robert Henry, and Basil S. Yamey. ''Accounting history: some British contributions.'' Oxford University Press, 1994. * Nobes, Christopher, and Robert Henry Parker, eds. ''Comparative international accounting.'' Pearson Education, 2008. ;Articles, a selection * Parker, Robert Henry. "Regulating British corporate financial reporting in the late nineteenth century." ''Accounting, Business & Financial History'' 1.1 (1990): 51–71.

References

1932 births 2016 deaths British business theorists British economists Accounting academics Academics of the University of Exeter People from North Walsham British expatriates in Nigeria British expatriates in Australia Academics of the London School of Economics Alumni of the University of London {{UK-economist-stub