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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
  • Business

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.

Crawford has extensive experience in executive education and has a formal advisory role with the Institute for Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

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Research

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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

05Feb
03Apr

Mini-MBA for In-House Lawyers - What They Don't Teach You In Law School

Learn from our experts about what they don't teach you in law school

Please note: this event has passed.

24Jun

Professional Datascapes

Professional Datascapes Conference, hosted by FinWork Future's at King's Business School

Please note: this event has passed.

08May

Operationalising Purposeful Culture in Financial Firms

This conference seeks to demystify the practical workings of purposeful culture in financial firms.

Please note: this event has passed.

01May

Mastering the challenge of ESG: a roadmap for SMEs

KCL and ESG Experts Ltd offer an afternoon of essential insights and practical guidance for SMEs tackling the challenges of implementing ESG

Please note: this event has passed.

08Nov

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.

18Jan

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.

25Jan

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.

08Feb

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.

The publication feed is not currently available.

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

05Feb
03Apr

Mini-MBA for In-House Lawyers - What They Don't Teach You In Law School

Learn from our experts about what they don't teach you in law school

Please note: this event has passed.

24Jun

Professional Datascapes

Professional Datascapes Conference, hosted by FinWork Future's at King's Business School

Please note: this event has passed.

08May

Operationalising Purposeful Culture in Financial Firms

This conference seeks to demystify the practical workings of purposeful culture in financial firms.

Please note: this event has passed.

01May

Mastering the challenge of ESG: a roadmap for SMEs

KCL and ESG Experts Ltd offer an afternoon of essential insights and practical guidance for SMEs tackling the challenges of implementing ESG

Please note: this event has passed.

08Nov

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.

18Jan

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.

25Jan

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.

08Feb

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.