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Professor Alan Sangster

Professor Alan Sangster
Professor Alan Sangster
Professor Alan Sangster

BA (Business Studies), MSc (Op. Res.), PhD (Acc. Ed.), Cert. TESOL, CA

Chair in Accounting History

Accepting PhDs

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Email Address
alan.sangster@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address

MacRobert 809

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Business School
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External Memberships

Editor-in-Chief, Accounting Education (Routledge)

Trustee of The Academy of Accounting Historians

Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)

Latest Publications

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Prizes and Awards

2025 Le Prix Joseph Colleye d'Histoire de la comptabilité from the Association pour l'Histoire du management et des organisations, Paris, France.

The 2022 'Outstanding Accounting Educator Award' of the American Accounting Association.

The 2022 'Outstanding Contribution to Accounting & Finance Education Award' of the British Accounting & Finance Association

The 2021 ‘Barbara D. Merino Award for Excellence in Accounting History Publication’ from the Academy of Accounting Historians section of the American Accounting Association.

The 2015 ‘Hourglass Award’ of the Academy of Accounting Historians.

The 2014 ‘Premio Enrique Fernández Peña de Historia de la Contabilidad' from The Spanish Association of Accounting and Business Administration (AECA).

The 2013 British Accounting and Finance Association ‘Life-Time Achievement Award’.

The 2009 Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Accounting Education’ from the British Accounting Association Special Interest Group in Accounting Education.

The 1997 Award for ‘Excellence in Teaching Innovation’ from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.

The 1995 Award for ‘Outstanding Educator’ from the Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems Section of the American Accounting Association.

Research

Research Overview

Accounting History

Business History

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in History.

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History

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Research Specialisms

  • Accounting
  • History

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Current Research

History of Accounting, business practice, and business education in the Medieval, early modern, and modern periods (c.1200-2000)

Publications

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  • Using Pacioli's pedagogy and medieval text in today's introductory accounting course

    Sangster, A., Franklin, E., Alwis, D., Abdul-Rahim, J., Stoner, G.
    Journal of Accounting Education, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 16-35
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Pacioli's Example Entries-a Conundrum Resolved?

    Sangster, A., Stoner, G., Scataglini-Belghitar, G., De Lange, P., O'Connell, B.
    Abacus, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 93-106
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • E-business internal audit: The elephant is still in the room!

    Kotb, A., Sangster, A., Henderson, D.
    Journal of Applied Accounting Research, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 43-63
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Factors that catalyse, facilitate and motivate the decision to implement activity-based costing in Jordanian industrial companies

    Nassar, M., Al-Khadash, H. A., Sangster, A., Mah'D, O.
    Journal of Applied Accounting Research, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 18-36
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Teaching IFRS in the U.K.: Contrasting experiences from both sides of the university divide

    Stoner, G. N., Sangster, A.
    Issues in Accounting Education, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 291-307
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Professional Accounting Body Affiliation: Shifting Priorities in the Transition from Student to Practitioner

    Sidaway, S., de Lange, P., Bouilheres, F., Sangster, A.
    Accounting Education, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 605-617
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The role of the state in the development of accounting in the Portuguese-Brazilian Empire, 1750-1822

    Rodrigues, L. L., Sangster, A.
    Accounting History Review, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 161-184
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Locating the source of pacioli's bookkeeping treatise

    Sangster, A.
    Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 97-110
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Pacioli’s forgotten book: The Merchant's Ricordanze

    Sangster, A., Stoner, G., de Lange, P., O'Connell, B., Scataglini-Belghitar, G.
    Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 27-44
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • 'Public-private partnerships': The Portuguese General Company of Pernambuco and Paraiba (1759)

    Rodrigues, L. L., Sangster, A.
    Business history, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1142-1165
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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