• Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance (Accounting and Finance)
• Adviser Of Studies (Social Sciences College Academic and Student Administration)

telephone: 01413305574
email: Greg.Stoner@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

• Accounting History: Luca Pacioli as educator, humanist & "father of double-entry bookkeeping"
• Employment skills in the curriculum
• The use and integration of computers and learning technologies in teaching
• IT skills of accounting students
• The flows and uses of information in organisational settings
• Organisational information systems
• IT in the accounting profession
• Corporate & investor relations and the dissemination of price sensitive information
• Qualitative research methodologies in business research

Biography

Greg is a lecturer in accounting and information systems, with primary research interests in the history of accounting, accounting education and the impact and utilisation of information systems (and IT) in accounting practice and higher education. Greg is currently Associate Editor (2010 to 2012) of Issues in Accounting Education (one of the three primary publications of the American Accounting Association) and on the editorial board of Accounting Education: an International Journal.

Greg has a long established involvement in the use of and research into the use of information technology in education. This resulted in a spell on secondment to the Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative in the mid 1990s; a major nationally funded project that was at the forefront of this area of development in Scotland at the time. Greg is a “Key Contact" with the Business, Management, Accounting and Finance Centre of the Higher Education Academy, having had similar roles with the earlier national centres for accounting and business education.

Greg’s broad experience of teaching and research has been accompanied by a wide range of administrative functions including responsibility for the development and maintenance of the website for Accounting & Finance, and VLEs (virtual learning environments), admissions, professional accreditation and publicity. Greg is currently treasurer of the British Accounting Association Education Special Interest Group.

Greg moved to the University of Glasgow after lecturing at Southampton University, having previously studied accounting, finance and operational research at the University of Lancaster and qualifying as a chartered accountant with KPMG in London.

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Research student (PhD) supervision areas

At present, I would be especially interested in supervising research into the early history of accounting and bookkeeping. I would also be interested in supervising student research into accounting education (particularly in relation to skills development and the use of information and learning technologies) and research on the application of information systems in the field of accounting.

Current PhD student

Rakshitha Mahoga Hitibandara

PhD topic: Sustainability reporting practices in Sri Lanka: current practices, nature and causes.

Co-supervisor - Professor John McKernan

Undergraduate: Information and Computer Systems (BAcc, L2), Operations & Financial Decision Management (Management, L2)

Postgraduate: MBA - SOP (Financial Accounting)

• Associate Editor (2010 to 2012) of Issues in Accounting Education (one of the three primary publications of the American Accounting Association)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Accounting Education: an international journal.
• Liaison ("Key Contact") with the Business, Management, Accounting and Finance Centre of the Higher Education Academy (formerly Business Education Support Team - BEST)
• External examiner: MSc in Strategic Information Systems at Strathclyde University
• Treasurer of the British Accounting Association Education Special Interest Group
• Honorary auditor for the Committee of Heads of Accounting (BAA Sub-group)
• Accreditation Assessor for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)

Research projects and work in progress

Accounting History: Luca Pacioli

Conference/ working paper versions of the following papers are available.

Stoner, G (2010) The perseverance of Pacioli’s goods inventory accounting system (pdf, 213kb).

Stoner, G. (2010) Pacioli’s goods inventory accounts: learning and managerial obfuscation (pdf, 303kb). Paper presented at the Sixth Accounting History International Conference, Wellington New Zealand, 18-20 August 2010

McCarthy, P., Sangster, A. and Stoner, G. "Pitching the text: an examination of language and devices used in Pacioli's Summa Arithmetica",  Paper Presented at the British Accounting Association: Education SIG Conference, May 2007, Gregynog, Wales

McCarthy, P., Sangster, A. and Stoner, G. "Pacioli and Humanism: pitching the text in Summa Arithmetica" Paper presented at the 19th Accounting, Business & Financial History Conference, Cardiff, 10-11 September 2007. (Pacioli and Humanism ABFH (pdf, 647kb))

Sangster, A., Stoner, and G. McCarthy, P."The market for Luca Pacioli’s Summa Arithmetica" Paper presented at the 19th Accounting, Business & Financial History Conference, Cardiff, 10-11 September 2007.

Sangster, A., Stoner, and G. McCarthy, P."The market for Luca Pacioli’s Summa Arithmetica" Paper Presented at the British Accounting Association: Education SIG Conference, May 2007, Gregynog, Wales

Employment skills in the curriculum

Stoner, G. and Milner, M "Embedding generic employability skills in an accounting degree: development and impediments." Paper to be presented at 2008 Annual Conference of Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance, Edinburgh April 2008 (Stoner&Milner-Embedding-BMAF-2008 (pdf, 98kb)) and the British Accounting Association: Education SIG Conference, May 2008, Sevilla.

Greg Stoner & Margaret Milner "Evaluating Introducing Employability in Undergraduate Degree Courses: are students successful or skilful?" Presentation at the British Accounting Association: Education SIG Conference, May 2007, Gregynog, Wales

Margaret Milner & Greg Stoner "Embedding skills in undergraduate degree courses" (pdf, 152kb) Paper presented at the British Accounting Association Education Special Interest Group Conference , London May 2006

Maciver, G, Milner, M and Stoner, G (2005) Evaluating and Embedding Skills in Undergraduate Degree Courses: Methodological Considerations" (pdf, 139kb).  Paper presented at the Higher Education Academy, Business, Management, Accounting & Finance Subject Centre, conference, London, April 2005

IT skills of accounting students

Earlier versions of the forthcomming (2008) Accounting Education paper.

Greg Stoner, "Accounting students’ IT skills on entrance to university over a 10 year period". Paper Presented at the British Accounting Association: Education SIG Conference, May 2007, Gregynog, Wales

Greg Stoner, "Accounting students’ IT skills on entrance to university over a 10 year period".  Post Education SIG Conference revision (June 2007).

(Earlier & alternative conference papers available on request by email: greg.stoner@glasgow.ac.uk)