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Pbarnaby: /* Professors of Accounting and Business Method */

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Professors of Accounting and Business Method

Pbarnaby: /* Other Accounting Chairs */

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Other Accounting Chairs

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Other Accounting Chairs

Pbarnaby: /* Professors of Accounting and Business Method (1919-1971) */

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Professors of Accounting and Business Method (1919-1971)

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Pbarnaby: /* Professors of Accountancy and Finance */

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Professors of Accountancy and Finance

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Pbarnaby: /* Professors of Accounting and Business Method */

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Professors of Accounting and Business Method

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 *1967-1971: [[Edward Stamp (1928-1986)]]
-From 1972 onwards, the Chair was renamed 'Accountancy and Finance', a separate Chair of [[Business Studies]] having been created in 1968.
+From 1972 onwards, the Chair was renamed 'Accountancy and Finance'.
 == Professors of Accountancy and Finance ==

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 == Other Accounting Chairs ==
-=== Professors of Management Accounting ===
+==== Professors of Management Accounting ====
 - : [[Falconer Mitchell]]
-=== Professors of Accounting History ===
+==== Professors of Accounting History ====
 -2002: [[Stephen P. Walker]]

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	== Other Accounting Chairs ==		== Other Accounting Chairs ==
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		+	=== Professors of Management Accounting ===
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		+	1993- : [[Falconer Mitchell]]
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		+	=== Professors of Accounting History ===
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		+	1998-2002: [[Stephen P. Walker]]

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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 Accounting was taught within the [[Faculty of Arts]] until 1964 when it transferred to the newly created [[Faculty of Social Sciences]]. Since 2002 it has been taught at Edinburgh University's [[Business School]] part of the [[College of Humanities and Social Science]].
-== Professors of Accounting and Business Method (1919-1971) ==
+== Professors of Accounting and Business Method ==
 *1919-1927: [[Thomas Patrick Laird (d. 1927)]]

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 *1987- : [[David J. Hatherly]]
 *[20--? - : [[Stephen P. Walker]]
 == Other Accounting Chairs ==

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 In 1991, the Chair was renamed 'Accountancy', an new Chair of Accounting having been created in 1987 (see below).
-== Professors of Accountancy
+== Professors of Accountancy ==
-*1991-
+*1991- : [[Irvine Lapsley]]
-== Professors of
+A new chair of Accounting was created in 1987:
 == Sources ==

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-== Foundation of Department of Commerce ==
+A Lectureship in Accounting and Business Method was created in 1918 as part of the newly formed Department of [[Commerce]]. It was endowed by subscriptions from members of the Edinburgh and Leith Chambers of Commerce, from the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, the Leith Shipowners, the Accountants' Society, and the Bankers Institute. These bodies, and the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce in particular, had been instrumental in persuading the university to introduce a Degree in Commerce to meet the challenges facing the country at the conclusion of the [[First World War]]. In 1919, the Lectureship was raised to a Chair, with Thomas Patrick Laird as the first appointee.
-The seeds of the Department of [[Commerce]] were sown during the [[First World War]]. At the end of 1916, the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce approached the University with the proposal that a degree course be set up to meet the commercial challenges facing the country at war's end. They argued that 'a co-ordination of energy and intelligence' would be required to maintain Britain's position on the world stage. The suggestion was taken up and, a little over a year later, the [[Senatus Academicus]] passed Ordinance 22 instituting the Degree of Bachelor of Commerce, which came into operation in the academic year 1918-1919. Lectureships in Accounting and Business Method and [[Organisation of Industry]] were instituted in the [[Faculty of Arts]], endowed by subscriptions from members of the Edinburgh and Leith Chambers of Commerce, from the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, the Leith Shipowners, the Accountants' Society, and the Bankers Institute. These were made into Chairs in 1919 and 1925 respectively. The Chair of [[Political Economy]], instituted in 1871, was also incorporated into the new Department of Commerce.
+== Professors of Accounting and Business Method ==
 == Sources ==