JayneBisman Charles Sturt University Initially endowed by the Commonwealth Institute of Accountants, and then by the various successive antecedent bodies of today's CPA Australia, the CPA Australia-University of Melbourne Annual Research Lecture series in accounting provided Geoff Burrows with the raw material for constructing his book, aptly titled Wisdom from the podium. Burrows, currently Principal Fellow and formerly a member of the Professoriate of the Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, identifies that this research lecture is “almost certainly the world's most-enduring annual accounting lecture series” (p.1). His objectives in authoring the book, both of which he realises, were to “communicate the excellence of [the] source materials, and faithfully present the key ideas contained in each lecture” (p.xviii). The book describes each of the 68 lectures in the series, from its inception in 1940 through to 2007. The first chapter of the book, entitled World Record Holders, includes a background to the establishment of the lecture series and furnishes the author's dissections of a range of characteristics of the lectures and lecturers, such as the predominant occupations of the lecturers (as academics, partners or principals in accounting firms, executives or managers, public
Book review: Wisdom from the podium: A history of the CPA Australia — University of Melbourne annual research lecture Geoff Burrows Melbourne University Publishing, 2008, 269 pp. ISBN: 978—0—522—85592—0
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JayneBisman Charles Sturt University Initially endowed by the Commonwealth Institute of Accountants, and then by the various successive antecedent bodies of today's CPA Australia, the CPA Australia-University of Melbourne Annual Research Lecture series in accounting provided Geoff Burrows with the raw material for constructing his book, aptly titled Wisdom from the podium. Burrows, currently Principal Fellow and formerly a member of the Professoriate of the Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, identifies that this research lecture is “almost certainly the world's most-enduring annual accounting lecture series” (p.1). His objectives in authoring the book, both of which he realises, were to “communicate the excellence of [the] source materials, and faithfully present the key ideas contained in each lecture” (p.xviii). The book describes each of the 68 lectures in the series, from its inception in 1940 through to 2007. The first chapter of the book, entitled World Record Holders, includes a background to the establishment of the lecture series and furnishes the author's dissections of a range of characteristics of the lectures and lecturers, such as the predominant occupations of the lecturers (as academics, partners or principals in accounting firms, executives or managers, publicPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Book review: Wisdom from the podium: A history of the CPA Australia — University of Melbourne annual research lecture Geoff Burrows Melbourne University Publishing, 2008, 269 pp. ISBN: 978—0—522—85592—0
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