Professor Will Baxter

Professor W T Baxter passed away on 8 June 2006, after a short illness.

Born	Grimsby 1906
School	George Watsons, Edinburgh
University	Edinburgh B.Com, 1928, PhD 1945 Harkness Fellowship - Pennsylvania 1931-1932, Harvard, 1932-33
CA	Apprenticed Scott Moncrieff, 1924 Edinburgh Society, 1930
Posts	Lecturer, Edinburgh University, 1934-1936 Professor, Cape Town University, 1937-1947 Professor, London School of Economics, 1947-73 Four years at Columbia and at city College of NY
Books	Income Tax for Professional Studies, Pitman, 1935 The House of Hancock - Business in Boston, 1972-74, Harvard University Press Depreciciation, Sweet and Maxwell, 1972 Inflation Accounting, Philip Allan, 1978 Collected Papers, Arno Press, 1978 Accounting Theory, Garland, 1996 Editor with Sidney Davidson, Studies in Accounting, Sweet and Maxwell, Third Edition, 1977.
Honorary Degrees	D.Litt, Kent, 1974; Heriot- Watt, 1976 Econ, Hull, 1977 Sc, Buckingham, 1980
Fellowships	London School of Economics, 1980 Edinburgh, 1994