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We pay tribute to a colleague who graced and enriched the accounting profession for over 50 years: Professor Allan Barton, who passed away in Canberra on 9 June, after a long battle with cancer. Allan’s contributions to accounting – as a profession, as an academic discipline and as a key component of public administration – are profound, wide‐ranging and were sustained over a long career. A first‐class Honours graduate from the University of Melbourne, and probably Australia’s first accounting professor to hold a PhD (which was in Economics from Cambridge, no less), Allan was a key figure in the development of accounting as an academic discipline – distinct from economics but building on its theoretical foundations. Indeed, he was a strong proponent of, and almost himself a symbol of, the close nexus between economics and accounting. One of his lessons to us is that each discipline should serve and learn from the other, much as Allan’s own academic training straddled both subjects. Allan’s great success in taking the accounting discipline forward rested on a remarkable combination of skills, convictions and personal traits. Applying these, he contributed conscientiously and enthusiastically to the discipline’s advancement within each of the institutions
Accounting & Finance – Wiley
Published: Sep 1, 2012
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