The paper describes the process that took Australian Local Councils to a business-like accounting and highlights the role played in it by the accounting profession. Taken over by the Government in the standard setting process for the private sector, the Australian accounting profession set up...

Raymond John Chambers was born just over a century ago on 16 November 1917. It is more than fifty years since his first classic, Accounting, Evaluation and Economic Behavior, was published, more than forty since Securities and Obscurities: Reform of the Law of Company Accounts (republished in...

"While Chambers provided several bibliographical summaries of his work, without the benefits of reviewing and interspersing the text with correspondence materials from the Chambers Archive this study would lack an appreciation of the impact of his early childhood, and nuances related to his...