Richard Laughlin

Richard Laughlin was Professor of Accounting at King’s until his retirement in 2010. Prior to coming to King’s he was Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex (1995-1999) and at the University of Sheffield (1991-1995), where, in 1973, he started his academic career. He has a Phd in Accounting from the University of Sheffield and is a FCA (Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) and a FAcSS (Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences). Throughout his academic career Richard's research and teaching have been concerned with the application and adaptation of interdisciplinary and critical social science approaches to provide an understanding of and change in management, accounting and accountability practices, particularly in the public services. He has a wide range of sole and joint publications on these concerns in leading accounting and management journals, and in books and monographs.

Richard has received a number of awards for his work including the British Accounting and Finance Association’s Distinguished Academic Award for his contribution to academic accounting. He has been Associate Editor of, and on the Editorial Board for, a range of leading interdisciplinary accounting journals. He has held visiting appointments in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji and made numberous presentations to conferences and workshops in the UK, Continental Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Brazil and Fiji.

Publications

• A conceptual framework for accounting for public-benefit entities 01 August 2008
• Performance management systems: A conceptual model 01 December 2009
• Analysing societal regulatory control systems with specific reference to higher education in England 01 January 2010
• It was 20 years ago today Sgt Pepper, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, green accounting and the Blue Meanies 01 January 2012
• Debate: Accrual accounting: information for accountability or decision usefulness? 01 January 2012
• Performance Audit of the Operational Stage of Long-Term Partnerships for the Private Sector Provision of Public Services 01 March 2010
• Steering for Sustainability 01 July 2010
• Identifying and Controlling Risk: The Problems of Uncertainty in the Private Finance Initiative in the UK's National Health Service 01 January 2006
• Government concerns and tensions in accounting standard setting: The case of accounting for the private finance initiative in the UK 01 January 2005
• Organisational and accounting change: Theoretical and empirical reflections and thoughts on a future research agenda. 01 January 2005