
BA (Business Studies), MSc (Op. Res.), PhD (Acc. Ed.), Cert. TESOL, CA
Chair in Accounting History
- About
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- Email Address
- alan.sangster@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
MacRobert 809
- School/Department
- Business School
External Memberships
Editor-in-Chief, Accounting Education (Routledge)
Deputy Chair, BAFA Accounting History SIG
Trustee of The Academy of Accounting Historians
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
Prizes and Awards
The 2022 'Outstanding Accounting Educator Award' of the American Accounting Association.
The 2022 'Outstanding Contribution to Accounting & Finance Education Award' of the British Accounting & Finance Association
The 2021 ‘Barbara D. Merino Award for Excellence in Accounting History Publication’ from the Academy of Accounting Historians section of the American Accounting Association.
The 2015 ‘Hourglass Award’ of the Academy of Accounting Historians.
The 2014 ‘Premio Enrique Fernández Peña de Historia de la Contabilidad' from The Spanish Association of Accounting and Business Administration (AECA).
The 2013 British Accounting and Finance Association ‘Life-Time Achievement Award’.
The 2009 Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Accounting Education’ from the British Accounting Association Special Interest Group in Accounting Education.
The 1997 Award for ‘Excellence in Teaching Innovation’ from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.
The 1995 Award for ‘Outstanding Educator’ from the Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems Section of the American Accounting Association.
- Research
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Research Overview
Accounting History
Business History
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in History.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
History
Accepting PhDsResearch Specialisms
- Accounting
- History
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
History of Accounting, business practice, and business education in the Medieval, early modern, and modern periods (c.1200-2000)
- Publications
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De Raphaeli: Venetian double entry bookkeeping in 1475
Lomax Press, Stirling. 150 pagesBooks and Reports: Scholarly EditionsPacioli's lens: God, humanism, Euclid, and the rhetoric of double entry
Accounting review, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 299-314Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-51850
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Earnings management, Ultra vires borrowing, and auditing of a scottish brewery 1884–1927
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 1-15Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/aahj-10542
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Accounting and the state: The Portuguese-Brazilian empire
The Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History: The Imperative of Power. Bigoni, M., Funnell, W. (eds.). Taylor and Francis AS, pp. 259-283, 25 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315164724
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Mapping forensic accounting in the UK
Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, vol. 28, pp. 43-56Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2016.12.004
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Strategic manoeuvres and impression management: communication approaches in the case of a crisis event
Business history, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 903-924Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2015.1128896
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The Genesis of Double Entry Bookkeeping
Accounting review, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 299-315Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-51115
The earliest known treatise on double entry bookkeeping by Marino de Raphaeli
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 1-33Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.42.2.1
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Jacob Roll: The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations, Allen Lane, Penguin Books Ltd: London, 2014, 276 + xvii pp: ISBN: 9781846146411
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 139-156Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.42.1.139
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The Impact of Accounting Education Research
Accounting Education, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 423-444Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2015.1091740
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You Cannot Judge a Book by Its Cover: The Problems with Journal Rankings
Accounting Education, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 175-186Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2015.1055929
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Libr. XV: Cotrugli and de Raphaeli on business and bookkeeping in the Renaissance
Lomax Press, Stirling. 212 pagesBooks and Reports: Scholarly EditionsPublishing characteristics, geographic dispersion and research traditions of recent international accounting education research
British Accounting Review, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 264-280Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2013.11.003
Emerging areas within the accounting curriculum
The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education. Wilson, R. M. (ed.). 1st edition. Routledge, pp. 314-343, 31 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersUsing Pacioli's pedagogy and medieval text in today's introductory accounting course
Journal of Accounting Education, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 16-35Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccedu.2013.12.001
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Pacioli's Example Entries-a Conundrum Resolved?
Abacus, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 93-106Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6281.2012.00372.x
E-business internal audit: The elephant is still in the room!
Journal of Applied Accounting Research, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 43-63Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-10-2012-0072
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Factors that catalyse, facilitate and motivate the decision to implement activity-based costing in Jordanian industrial companies
Journal of Applied Accounting Research, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 18-36Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09675421311282522
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Teaching IFRS in the U.K.: Contrasting experiences from both sides of the university divide
Issues in Accounting Education, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 291-307Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/iace-50357
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Professional Accounting Body Affiliation: Shifting Priorities in the Transition from Student to Practitioner
Accounting Education, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 605-617Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2013.847324
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The role of the state in the development of accounting in the Portuguese-Brazilian Empire, 1750-1822
Accounting History Review, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 161-184Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21552851.2013.803758
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Locating the source of pacioli's bookkeeping treatise
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 97-110Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.39.2.97
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Pacioli’s forgotten book: The Merchant's Ricordanze
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 27-44Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.39.2.27
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'Public-private partnerships': The Portuguese General Company of Pernambuco and Paraiba (1759)
Business history, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1142-1165Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2012.692079
The ABS Journal Quality Guide: A Personal View
Accounting Education, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 575-580Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2011.621660
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