ABSTRACT
Raymond John Chambers was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, on 16 November 1917, the elder son of Joseph and Louisa (née Mogg). On 31 December 1982 he retires as a Professor of Accounting in the University of Sydney, after 30 years' service in developing and providing academic leadership for the Department of Accounting in the Faculty of Economics. The Department was never the largest such department among the Australian universities. But over that period some thousands of its students have graduated with majors in accounting. There are today eight professors who in that time took first degrees or higher degrees with accounting majors or were on the teaching staff of the Department. Chambers' published work over that period earned him an international reputation, especially for his formulation and exposition of the theory of continuously-contemporary accounting.
