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Crawford Spence

Professor Crawford Spence

Professor of Accounting

  • Co-Director of the FinWork Futures Research Centre

Research interests

  • Accounting & Financial Management

Biography

Crawford Spence is Professor of Accounting with broader interests in economic sociology. He has published extensively across a range of accounting, organisational and sociology journals. He sits on the editorial boards of Accounting, Organizations and Society, the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Contemporary Accounting Research.

His research has explored corporate accountability, corporate tax, professional elites and expertise in financial markets. He joined King's in 2017 and has held visiting or permanent appointments in Canada, Japan, Norway, France and Spain.

Along with Rita Samiolo, Crawford co-directs the FinWork Futures Research Centre at King's, which explores how technological innovation is disrupting financial professions and financial expertise.

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    Research

    accounting-finance-begins-at-kings-hero
    FinWork Futures

    Investigating the future of financial work and new technologies for the financial professions

    News

    King's Business School partners with ACC to offer Mini MBA for lawyers

    Research by the Association of Corporate Counsel highlights the need for broad business knowledge

    Group of black women in a meeting

    Technology and the brave new world of audit

    How have practitioners and regulators responded to the arrival of the age of machine learning?

    AI network

    Professor Crawford Spence awarded Leverhulme Fellowship

    Audit in the Age of Machines: creating room for more human judgement?

    A picture of Professor Crawford Spence

    Events

    08NovLaw LLM

    The Future of Corporate Counsel: Trends and Insights

    Join Prof. Crawford Spence & Giuseppe Marletta (Managing Director, Europe at Association of Corporate Counsel) as they discuss the changing role of corporate...

    Please note: this event has passed.

    18Janbitcoin-1813503_1920

    Adam Hayes: Bitcoin Was Never Meant to Be Money… So What Is It and Why Should Sociologists Care?

    Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Adam Hayes from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    25JanBlockchain news image 780px

    A Panel Debate: Whatever Happened with FTX?

    FinWork Blockchain Seminar presents a panel debate with Ian Taylor, Lodewijk Van Setten and Gayle Rogers.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    08FebBlockchain news image 780px

    Koray Caliskan: The Collapse of Trust in a Trust Machine. A Blockchain and Its Community Politics

    FinWork Futures Research Centre presents Koray Caliskan from Parsons, The New School in this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    08MarBlockchain news image 780px

    Lodewijk van Setten: Tokenisation of Off-Chain Assets and Legal Risk Management

    Please join us for this instalment of the Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Lodewijk van Stetten from TriliTech, Tezos Foundation.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    02MayAI 1

    David C. Parkes: Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules

    Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with David Parkes from Harvard University.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    10Maycel-news-hero

    Lawyers to Leaders: Earning your seat at the table

    The role of the legal function is expanding.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    13AprBlockchain news image 780px

    Tim Roughgarden : The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case Study in Blockchains/Web3

    Please join us for the instalment of the Finwork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Tim Roughgarden: The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case...

    Please note: this event has passed.

    16Marbitcoin-1813503_1920

    Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology

    Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology

    Please note: this event has passed.

    16Febtech

    Peter McBurney: Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business

    Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business

    Please note: this event has passed.

      Research

      accounting-finance-begins-at-kings-hero
      FinWork Futures

      Investigating the future of financial work and new technologies for the financial professions

      News

      King's Business School partners with ACC to offer Mini MBA for lawyers

      Research by the Association of Corporate Counsel highlights the need for broad business knowledge

      Group of black women in a meeting

      Technology and the brave new world of audit

      How have practitioners and regulators responded to the arrival of the age of machine learning?

      AI network

      Professor Crawford Spence awarded Leverhulme Fellowship

      Audit in the Age of Machines: creating room for more human judgement?

      A picture of Professor Crawford Spence

      Events

      08NovLaw LLM

      The Future of Corporate Counsel: Trends and Insights

      Join Prof. Crawford Spence & Giuseppe Marletta (Managing Director, Europe at Association of Corporate Counsel) as they discuss the changing role of corporate...

      Please note: this event has passed.

      18Janbitcoin-1813503_1920

      Adam Hayes: Bitcoin Was Never Meant to Be Money… So What Is It and Why Should Sociologists Care?

      Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Adam Hayes from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      25JanBlockchain news image 780px

      A Panel Debate: Whatever Happened with FTX?

      FinWork Blockchain Seminar presents a panel debate with Ian Taylor, Lodewijk Van Setten and Gayle Rogers.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      08FebBlockchain news image 780px

      Koray Caliskan: The Collapse of Trust in a Trust Machine. A Blockchain and Its Community Politics

      FinWork Futures Research Centre presents Koray Caliskan from Parsons, The New School in this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      08MarBlockchain news image 780px

      Lodewijk van Setten: Tokenisation of Off-Chain Assets and Legal Risk Management

      Please join us for this instalment of the Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Lodewijk van Stetten from TriliTech, Tezos Foundation.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      02MayAI 1

      David C. Parkes: Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules

      Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with David Parkes from Harvard University.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      10Maycel-news-hero

      Lawyers to Leaders: Earning your seat at the table

      The role of the legal function is expanding.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      13AprBlockchain news image 780px

      Tim Roughgarden : The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case Study in Blockchains/Web3

      Please join us for the instalment of the Finwork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Tim Roughgarden: The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case...

      Please note: this event has passed.

      16Marbitcoin-1813503_1920

      Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology

      Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology

      Please note: this event has passed.

      16Febtech

      Peter McBurney: Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business

      Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business

      Please note: this event has passed.