Newcastle University

Introduction

My main areas of work are in management accounting and accounting change and development.

My research interest lies in the field of management accounting history and is particularly based in archival research.

Background

I gained experience of accounting in business firms and professional practice before entering academic life.

Roles and Responsibilities

I am module leader for 4 undergraduate modules and 1 post-graduate modules.
 

Qualifications

M.Phil (Edinburgh)

Previous Positions

Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Northumbria.

Honours and Awards

2004 Award from the Academy of Accounting Historians' for Innovation in the teaching of Accounting History : jointly with Susie Brackenborough, Warwick Funnell, David Oldroyd and Simon Pallett.

Research Interests

My research is focused on archive-based historical studies of change and development in management accounting.

Current Work

Currently, I am working on studies of management accounting change and development in industries of North East England during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Future Research

Continuing research on current themes.

Research Roles

I am Chair of the Cultures, Accounting and Management History Research Group of Newcastle University Business School.

Keywords

Management accounting history; management accounting change and development.

Undergraduate Teaching

ACC1000/1003 Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists

ACC3000 Case Studies Business, Accounting and Finance

ACC3018 Accounting Change and Development 

Postgraduate Teaching

NBS8022 Accounting and Finance: Executive MBA

NBS8122 Accounting and Finance: Full-time MBA 

• McGovern T, McLean T. The growth and development of Clarke Chapman 1865-1914 [This article was submitted to 'Business History' in August 2011]. Business History 2011. Submitted.
• McLean T. Costing and cost engineering in Hawthorn Leslie Shipbuilders, 1886 - 1914. British Accounting Review (in submission) 2010, (Revised submission 2011).
• McLean T, McGovern T. Accounting change and development in Clarke Chapman 1865-1914. British Accounting Review 2012. In Preparation.
• McLean T. Accounting, agriculture and almanacs in the mental climate of early seventeenth century England. The Accounting Historians Notebook (in submission) 2010.
• McLean T. Human performance measurement and management in early seventeenth century English agriculture : the case of Henry Best. Accounting Forum Special Issue - Financial accounting: Past, present and future 2009, 33(1), 62-73.
• McLean T. Accounting and technological change: the transition from wood to iron shipbuilding in the Sunderland shipbuilding industry, c. 1850 - c. 1875. Accounting Historians Notebook 2006.
• McLean T. Continuity and change in British cost accounting development: The case of Hawthorn Ieslie, shipbuilders and engineers, 1886-1914. British Accounting Review 2006, 38(1), 95-121.
• McLean T, Tyson T. Standard costs, standard costing and the introduction of scientific management and new technology into the post-second world war sunderland shipbuilding industry. Accounting, Business and Financial History 2006, 16(3), 389-417.
• Brackenborough S, Mclean T, Oldroyd D. The emergence of discounted cash flow analysis in the tyneside coal industry c.1700-1820. British Accounting Review 2001, 33(2), 137-155.
• McLean T. Agents reputation, accounting and costing in organisational control stuctures. Accounting Historians Journal 1997, 24(1), 1-23.
• McLean T. Bureaucratic and craft administration of the production process: The formation of accounting and non-accounting control arrangements. Management Accounting Research 1996, 7(1), 119-134.
• McLean T. Contract accounting and costing in the Sunderland shipbuilding industry, 1818-1917. Accounting, Business and Financial History 1995, 5(1), 109-145.
• McGovern T, McLean T. . 2012. In Preparation.
• McGovern T, McLean T. Financial management and entrepreneurial failure: Clarke Chapman, 1865 - 1914. British Accounting Review 2012. In Preparation.