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Vaughan Radcliffe

Associate Professor, Managerial Accounting and Control

Education

  • BSc Hons, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
  • MSc, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
  • PhD, University of Alberta

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Profile

Vaughan Radcliffe is Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting and Control at the Richard Ivey School of Business. He is President of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA), the publisher of the Financial Times ranked journal Contemporary Accounting Research and organizer of the two leading accounting research conferences held in Canada. He previously served as Chair of the CAAA's Research Committee. He is a winner of the school wide MBAA teaching award for excellence in MBA teaching.

His work has appeared in Accounting, Organizations and Society; Contemporary Accounting Research; the Journal of Business Ethics; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and others. Before joining Ivey he was an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University in the United States. His PhD was completed at the University of Alberta, Canada. Professor Radcliffe's current research focuses on the role of accounting and auditing in the public sector, especially the development and use of efficiency auditing, and on the history of the Ontario Securities Commission's regulation of accounting and auditing in Canada. He is studying the role of accounting information in downsizing by religious organizations. Further branches of research examine the role of accounting information in Canada's equalization program and the international movement to IFRS.

Professor Radcliffe is Associate Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and a member of several editorial boards including Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.

He has served as Chair of the Public Interest Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA), as an elected Council Member for AAA and as a Trustee of the Academy of Accounting Historians. He is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountant's (CICA) Academic Research Advisory Committee and of CICA's Digital Archives Advisory Committee. He has twice served as Chief Judge of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario's Voluntary Sector Reporting Awards. Vaughan Radcliffe is a member of the Management Committee of the University of Western Ontario's Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC).

He has written multiple cases on topics including balanced scorecards in nonprofit settings (London Public Library); cost behavior in the service sector (AT&T Wireless: Text Messaging); and the effects of changing accounting standards (Starbucks: Venti Leases).

Teaching

  • MBA Program: Accounting and Control for Managers (one year program core class)

Selected Publications

  • C. Free, V.S. Radcliffe and B. White, (Forthcoming) 'Crisis, Committees and Consultants: The Rise of Value-Added Auditing in the Federal Public Sector in Canada',Journal of Business Ethics.
  • V.S. Radcliffe, (Forthcoming) 'Politics and the Professional in the Election of the Auditor of State of Ohio.' Accounting and the Public Interest.
  • V.S. Radcliffe (2011), "Public Secrecy in Government Auditing Seen More Clearly," Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 22(7): 722-732.
  • V.S. Radcliffe (2010), "(Discussion of) 'The World has Changed, Have Analytical Procedure Practices?'", Contemporary Accounting Research, Summer, 27(2): 701 - 709.
  • S.A. Zeff. and V.S. Radcliffe (2010), "The Ontario Securities Commission on Accounting and Auditing from the 1960s to 2008 - Part 2: The First Four Chief Accountants 1986 - 1996", Accounting Perspectives, June, 9(2), pp. 97 - 138.
  • S.A. Zeff. and V.S. Radcliffe (2010), "The Ontario Securities Commission on Accounting and Auditing from the 1960s to 2008 - Part 1: 1960s to 1985", Accounting Perspectives, March, 9(1), pp. 29 - 53.
  • C. Free and V.S. Radcliffe, (2009), "Accountability in Crisis: The Sponsorship Scandal and the Office of the Comptroller General in Canada", Journal of Business Ethics, 84, pp. 189-208.
  • P. Martin, L. Mezon, T. Forrestal, R. Labelle, V.S. Radcliffe and J. Gaa, (2008), "International Financial Reporting Standards are Coming: Are You Ready?", Accounting Perspectives, 7(1) pp. 41-56.
  • H. D. CasabĂ© and V. S. Radcliffe, "Learning From Argentina's Greatest Fiscal Crisis", Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Summer 2008, 20(2), pp. 212-216.
  • V.S. Radcliffe (2008), 'Accounting, Accountants and Accountability: Poststructuralist Positions' (Norman Belding Macintosh), Book Review, The Accounting Review, 83(1), pp. 258-259.
  • V. S. Radcliffe, (2008), "What Government Auditors Cannot Know: A Study of Public Secrecy in the Audit of the Cleveland City Schools", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19(1), pp. 99-126.
  • V.S. Radcliffe, (2006) 'It's Oysters Dear!', Professor Carnegie's Prescription and the Seeming Fate of Accounting History in the United States, Accounting Historians Journal, 33(1), pp. 211-214.
  • T.J. Fogarty, V.S. Radcliffe and D.R. Campbell, (2006), "Accountancy Before the Fall: The AICPA Vision Project and Related Professional Enterprises", Accounting, Organizations and Society,31(1), pp. 1-25.
  • D. Fleischman and V.S. Radcliffe, (2005), "The Roaring Nineties: Accounting History Comes of Age", Accounting Historians Journal, 32(i), pp. 61-110.
  • D. Fleischman and V.S. Radcliffe, (2003), "Divergent Streams in Accounting History: A Review and Call for Confluence" in D. Fleischman, V.S. Radcliffe and P. Shoemaker (eds.), Doing Accounting History: Contributions to the Development of Accounting Thought, JAI Press (Elsevier).
  • D. Fleischman, V.S. Radcliffe and P. Shoemaker, (2003), Doing Accounting History: Contributions to the Development of Accounting Thought, JAI Press (Elsevier).
    V.S. Radcliffe, D. Campbell and T. Fogarty, (2001), "Exploring Downsizing: A Case Study on the Use of Accounting Information", Journal of Management Accounting Research, 13, pp. 131-157.
  • V.S. Radcliffe and T. Fogarty, (2000), "Extending Practice: Accountants' Constructions of the Industrial Relations Arena in the U.S.", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 12(5), pp. 525-560.
  • V.S. Radcliffe, (1999), "Knowing Efficiency: The Enactment of Efficiency in Efficiency Auditing," Accounting, Organizations and Society, 24(4), pp.  333-362.
  • V.S. Radcliffe, (1998), "Efficiency Audit: An Assembly of Rationalities and Programmes," Accounting, Organizations and Society, 23(4), pp. 377-410.
  • V.S. Radcliffe, (1998), "Competing Rationalities in 'Special' Government Audits: The Case of Novatel," Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 8(4), pp. 343-366.
  • V.S. Radcliffe, D. Cooper, and K. Robson, (1994), "The Management of Professional Enterprises and Regulatory Change: British Accountancy and the Financial Services Act, 1986" Accounting, Organizations and Society, 19(7), pp. 601-628.

Research/Course Development

  • Accounting regulation
  • Government accounting and auditing
  • Field-based research
  • Accounting history

Experience

  • Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, USA
  • Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Expertise

  • Accounting History
  • Management Accounting
  • Government Auditing (Development and Operation of Efficiency Auditing)
  • Professional Regulation
  • Development of Professional Bodies
 

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