Chris Higson is a professor in the accounting group at London Business School, where he was for some years the chair of the Accounting faculty. He qualified as a chartered accountant in London with Deloitte and holds a doctorate in finance from London Business School and degrees in philosophy and economics from UCL. His work centres on financial reporting and analysis, and the measurement of corporate financial performance and the value of businesses.
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He serves as an expert witness in accounting practice and regulation, performance measurement and taxation. He is a member of the oversight board of a UK
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investment company. He has advised, or coached senior management in many leading industrial, financial and asset management companies. He comments on financial matters for television, radio and in the international press. He has been involved in creating several new businesses, including a consultancy advising governmental and financial institutions on the value of their information assets, and a media start-up.
He has had several non-executive roles for the UK Government, as a member of the UK’s Industrial Development Advisory Board and of the Regional Growth Fund. He was on the first investment committees of the UK Green Investment Bank and of the British Business Bank. This work has involved assessing the performance of some hundreds of UK businesses, ranging from technology start-ups to global multinationals. He developed the framework for measuring the social effects of government intervention that is now the basis for analysing the UK Government’s industrial support.
He has written over a hundred papers, case studies and books. He does economic research in the broad area of asset management. His book, Financial Statements: economic analysis and interpretation (3rd edition, forthcoming, Rivington) is also aimed at practitioners and business students and explains the logic of accounting and the relationship between corporate performance measurement and strategy. A full list of Chris Higson’s written output, and links to his papers and also some podcasts, are available at: http://faculty.london.edu/chigson/
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