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After graduating from the University of Sheffield with a first class honours degree, Jim Haslam qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Whinney (now part of Ernst and Young), becoming a senior accountant by the time he left to begin his academic career as a lecturer at the University of Aston, Birmingham in 1984. In the succeeding years he has been a lecturer at the University College of North Wales and at the London School of Economics. In 1990 he became senior lecturer at the University of Essex, Colchester, where he was also awarded his PhD entitled "On the Prescribing of Accounting and Accounting Publicity: Accounting History as Critique". In 1995 he was appointed to the Chair of Accounting at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, where he was Head of the Department. He returned to the UK in 1998 to take up the post of Professor of Accountancy at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, where he was also the Head of Accountancy and Finance. He was appointed to the Chair in Accountancy & Business Finance at the University of Dundee in 2004. He is Head of the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting SIG of the BAA.
(with S. Gallhofer), "Commentary on: 'Professionalising Claims and the State of UK Professional Accountancy: Some Evidence'", Accounting Education, (2007), Vol16(1),pp27-30
(with S. Gallhofer), "Exploring social, political and economic dimensions of accounting in the global context: the International Accounting Standards Board and accounting disaggregation". Socio-Economic Review, (2007) October, pp 1-32
(with S. Gallhofer), "The Accounting-Globalisation Interrelation: An Overview with some Reflections on the Neglected Dimension of Emancipatory Potentiality", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Nov 2006, vol 17(7), pp903-934
(with S. Gallhofer and R. Kamla), "Islam, Nature and Accounting: Islamic Principles and the Notion of Accounting for the Environment", Accounting Forum, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2006, pp. 245-265
(with S. Gallhofer, E. Monk and C. Roberts),"The Emancipatory Potential of Online Reporting: The Case of Counter Accounting", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2006, Vol19(5), pp681-718.
(with S. Gallhofer), "Online Reporting: Accounting in Cybersociety, Editorial Introduction to the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal Special Issue on Online Reporting", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, (2006), Vol19(5), pp625-630
(with S. Gallhofer), "Mobilising Accounting in the Radical Media during the First World War and its Aftermath: The Case of Forward in the Context of Red Clydeside", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 17, Nos. 2/3, 2006, pp. 224-252.
(with S. Gallhofer, E. Monk and C. Roberts), "Response to Prem Sikka's Reflections on the Internet and Possibilities for Counter Accounting", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, (2006), Vol19(5), pp770-773.
(with S. Gallhofer), Reply to Critique of 'Accounting and Emancipation': Good Questions, some Inappropriate Targets?, Advances in Public Interest Accounting, Vol. 10, 2004, pp. 199-216
(with S. Gallhofer), Social Accounting: A Historical perspective, in, Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Accounting, ed. C.Clubb 2004
(with S. Gallhofer.), Accounting and Liberation Theology: Some Insights for the Project of Emancipatory Accounting, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2004
(with S.Gallhofer) Accounting and Emancipation: Some Critical Reflections, Routledge, London and New York, 2003, xii + 223pp.
(with S. Gallhofer and J. Roper) "Applying Critical Discourse Analysis: Struggles over Takeovers Legislation in New Zealand", Advances in Public Interest Accounting, Vol. 8, 2001, pp. 121-155 .
(with S. Gallhofer) "Bentham on Accounting: A Summary Analysis Reflecting on the Concept of Accountability", in, S. B. Dahiya (ed.) (2000), The Current State of Business Disciplines, Volume 1: Accounting, Rohtak: Spellbound Publications, pp. 219-236.
(with S. Gallhofer, S. Morrow and R. Sydserff) "Accounting, Transparency and the Culture of Spin: Re-orientating Accounting Communication in the New Millennium", Pacific Accounting Review, Special Millennium Edition, Vol. 11, No. 2, December 1999/January 2000, pp. 97-111
(with S. Gallhofer, K. Gibson, P. McNicholas and B. Takiari)"Developing Environmental Accounting: Insights from Indigenous Cultures", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2000, pp. 381-409 .
Back to TopJim is currently engaged in projects in the area of critical and social analysis of accounting and related practices. He has published many articles in the history of accounting, especially in respect of Jeremy Bentham and accounting and the history of accounting in the 'long nineteenth century', which remain key research interests. Current work has focused on counter accounting and globalisation and a critique of the IASB from a critical perspective.
He is Head of the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Special Interest Group (IPA SIG) of the British Accounting Association
He is also on the Editorial Board for:- Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Pacific Accounting Review; Accounting Forum; Alternative Perspectives on Finance and Accounting; Accountancy and Business Affairs; and International Journal of Accounting Literature; International Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Taxation
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