Bruce Clayton

Bruce is a Management Accounting and Financial Planning specialist based in Australia. Bruce is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA), and completed his undergraduate qualifications at the University of Natal; his MBA at the University of Cape Town and his Doctorate at Potchefstroom University. Bruce qualified by working first as an articled clerk and then as an audit manager with Ernst & Young and Deloitte. He then moved into teaching and has had visiting scholar positions in the UK, USA, South Africa and China. He was Associate Professor in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Deakin University, Australia, teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and supervising research at Masters and PhD levels. Bruce has published in the prestigious academic journals, “Accounting, Organizations and Society” and “Critical Perspectives on Accounting” among others, and has a forthcoming publication (with Professor Chris van Staden), in the Australian Accounting Review titled “The impact of social influence pressure on the ethical decision-making of professional accountants: Australian and New Zealand evidence”.