Raymond J. Chambers

Raymond John Chambers (16 November 1917 – 13 September 1999), was an accounting academic who worked at the University of Sydney from 1953–1999. His research sought to provide an evidence-based reform of financial reporting and accounting practice.

Chambers was selected by Dick Edwards as one of his Twentieth Century Accounting Thinkers. Additionally, he was the first academic outside of North America to be inducted into the American Accounting Association’s Accounting Hall of Fame. He published nearly 300 articles, a dozen books and monographs, made over 100 submissions to the press and various public and professional accounting bodies, as well as delivering close to 400 lectures across the world. Accounting, Evaluation and Economic Behavior, Securities and Obscurities, and An Accounting Thesaurus are his most well-known book-length contributions.

Raymond J. Chambers also established Abacus, a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal under the Accounting Foundation, University of Sydney in 1965. Chambers remained the editor-in-chief until 1974 when he was succeeded by Murray Wells.