Professor Richard Jackson

Professor of Accounting and Finance
BSc (Exeter), FCA, MBA (Cranfield), PGCHE (Wales) Photograph of Professor Richard Jackson.

Contact

Email: richard.jackson@aber.ac.uk
Office: Room F7, Cledwyn Building
Phone: +44 (0)1970 62 2740

Biography

Richard Jackson is Professor of Accounting and Finance, and subject area academic research lead for the Accounting and Finance Group. He rejoined the School’s faculty in 2011, having previously worked in Aberystwyth between 2000 and 2004. From 2004 and 2010, Professor Jackson was at the  University of Exeter Business School, during which time he was Head of the Department of Accounting for five years. Professor Jackson’s research interests include asset pricing, prediction of corporate financial distress, derivatives usage, earnings dynamics, earnings management and econometric methodology; and his teaching specialisms lie in finance, accounting and strategy - at the undergraduate, postgraduate and management development levels. Prior to his academic career, Professor Jackson had twelve years‘ experience in professional and financial services with Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting), NatWest Group and Ernst & Young. He is a graduate in Pure and Applied Mathematics, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and gained his MBA from Cranfield and Carnegie Mellon Universities - where he was the Henry Ford II Scholar and an A T Kearney Prizewinner. Professor Jackson is an Associate of Exeter Centre for Finance and Investment.

Staff Publications

Recent Publications

  • Taxation influences upon the market in venture capital trust stocks: theory and practice (with K Holland) (2011), Accounting and Business Research, 41(1), pp. 1-27
  • Creative Accounting - The UK Experience (with D Gwilliam) (2010), pp. 379-406 in Jones, M. (Ed.), Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
  • Fair value in financial reporting: Problems and pitfalls in practice – A case study analysis of the use of fair valuation at Enron (with D Gwilliam) (2008), Accounting Forum, 32, pp. 240-259
  • The Persistence of profits in the long run: a new approach (with J Cable) (2008), International Journal of the Economics of Business, 15(2), pp. 229-244
  • Dividend valuation, trading and transactions costs: the 1997 partial abolition of dividend tax credit repayments (with K Holland and L Hodgkinson) (2006), Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 36 No. 4, pp. 253-270
  • Earnings Management and Deferred Tax (with K Holland) (2004), Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 34 No. 2, pp. 101-123 [part-funded by a grant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales]