Vaughan Radcliffe

Professor, Managerial Accounting and Control
Program Director, Graduate Diploma in Accounting (GDip)

Vaughan Radcliffe is Professor of Managerial Accounting and Control at the Ivey Business School. He is a Past President and former Research Committee Chair of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA), the publisher of the Financial Times ranked journal Contemporary Accounting Research. He has twice been an elected member of the Council of the American Accounting Association. He has served two terms as Editor of the Journal of Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, a journal of the American Accounting Association. He is a winner of Ivey's school wide MBAA teaching award for excellence in MBA teaching; he is also a multiple winner of the school’s Research Merit award.

His work has appeared in Accounting, Organizations and Society; Contemporary Accounting Research; the Journal of Business Ethics; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and others. Professor Radcliffe has served as an Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and is a member of seven editorial boards including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, and Contemporary Accounting Research.

Before joining Ivey, he was an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University in the United States. His PhD was completed at the University of Alberta, Canada. Professor Radcliffe's current research focuses on the role of accounting and auditing in society, especially the development and use of efficiency auditing in the Federal Government of Canada and the history of accounting’s role in American corporate governance in the early twentieth century. He has in addition studied changing mandates for the Auditor General of Ontario concerning the audit of government advertisements. He is also studying the history of the Auditor of State of Ohio's work in enumerating population in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Vaughan Radcliffe has served as Chair of the Public Interest Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and is presently the Section’s Vice President of Research. He has twice served as a Trustee of the Academy of Accounting Historians. He was a member of CPA Canada’s Academic Research Advisory Committee and of CPA Canada’s Digital Archives Advisory Committee. He has twice served as Chief Judge of CPA Ontario's Voluntary Sector Reporting Awards.

He has written multiple cases on topics including balanced scorecards in nonprofit settings (London Public Library); cost behaviour in the service sector (AT&T Wireless: Text Messaging); and the effects of changing accounting standards (Starbucks: Venti Leases). A recent case concerns Restaurant Brands International's (RBI's) use of management control systems at Tim Hortons.

Vaughan Radcliffe is a member of the Management Committee of Western University's Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC). He has served as a member of Western University’s Senate.