Prof. David McCollum-Oldroyd
Professor of Accounting
- Email: david.oldroyd@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 7586
Qualifications:
PhD, MPhil, BA, ACA
Position:
Professor of Accounting
Centre or Institute membership:
Cultures, Accounting and Management History Research Group;
Consumption and the History of Consumer Studies Research Group;
Americas Research Group
Research programme:
The main aim of my research is to understand why accounting is such a powerful force in society by exploring its interactions within cultures and organisations, primarily, although not exclusively, in an historical context.
Collaborating partners:
Professors Dick Fleischman, Tom Tyson and Warwick Funnell
Selected Publications
- Oldroyd D. Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700-1780. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
- Fleischman RK; Oldroyd D. An Imperial Connection? Contrasting the Coal-mining Accounting Practices of the Northeast of England and Nova Scotia, Canada 1825-1900. Accounting Historians Journal 2001, 28(2), 31-62.
- Tyson T; Fleischman RK; Oldroyd D. Theoretical perspectives on accounting for labor on slave plantations of the USA and British West Indies. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 2004, 17(5), 758-778.
- Fleischman RK; Oldroyd D; Tyson T. Monetizing Human Life: Slave Valuations on U.S. and British West Indian Plantations. Accounting History 2004, 9(2), 35-62.
- Tyson T; Oldroyd D; Fleischman RK. Accounting, coercion and social control during apprenticeship: Converting slave workers to wage workers in the British West Indies, c.1834-1838. Accounting Historians Journal 2005, 32(2), 201-231.
- Tyson T; Oldroyd D. Straw men and old saws: an evidence based response to Sy & Tinker's critique of accounting history. Accounting Historians Journal 2007, 34(1), 173-193.
