Robert Henry Parker (September 1932 – 24 July 2016)[1][2][3] was a British accounting scholar, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter,[4] known for his work on "comparative international accounting"[5] and the history of the accounting profession in Britain.[6]
Parker, Robert Henry, and Geoffrey Colin Harcourt, eds. Readings in the Concept and Measurement of Income. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.
Parker, Robert Henry. Management accounting: An historical perspective. Macmillan, 1969.
Kitchen, Jack, and Robert Henry Parker. Accounting thought and education: Six English pioneers. Taylor & Francis, 1980.
Parker, Robert Henry. The development of the accountancy profession in Britain to the early twentieth century. Vol. 5. Academy of Human Studies, 1986.
Parker, Robert Henry, and Basil S. Yamey. Accounting history: some British contributions. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Nobes, Christopher, and Robert Henry Parker, eds. Comparative international accounting. Pearson Education, 2008.
Articles, a selection
Parker, Robert Henry. "Regulating British corporate financial reporting in the late nineteenth century." Accounting, Business & Financial History 1.1 (1990): 51–71.
^Ball, Ray, S. P. Kothari, and Ashok Robin. "The effect of international institutional factors on properties of accounting earnings." Journal of accounting and economics 29.1 (2000): 1–51.
^Armstrong, Peter. "The rise of accounting controls in British capitalist enterprises." Accounting, Organizations and Society 12.5 (1987): 415–436.