Conjectures on accounting education in Tasmania, 1803 to 1833: the convict, the classicist and the cleric

Russell Craig

Accounting Forum, 2002, vol. 26, issue 3-4, 233-244

Abstract: This paper provides biographical portraits of several of the teachers and entrepreneurs implicated in the introduction of accounting education to the convict–based British colonial settlement on Tasmania, 1803–1833. A tapestry of enigmatic and colourful characters is revealed: a convicted forger, a bankrupted ‘classicist’, and a cleric with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford. Their experiences as pioneer teachers and promoters of accounting in Australia's second oldest British settlement (after Sydney) give cause for modern day teachers of accounting to pause to reflect before complaining about the conditions of their work. The paper provides a piece of the foundational bedrock that is necessary for a fuller understanding of how accounting was propagated in Australia and in similar societies.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1111/1467-6303.00088

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