Robert Bruce

Robert Bruce is a chartered accountant and freelance journalist

Robert Bruce is the UK’s leading commentator on accounting, financial reporting, corporate governance and management issues. He writes regular articles on accountancy and financial reporting for the Financial Times.

As well as writing for CRN, Robert writes a monthly column on management issues for Accountancy magazine as well as writing articles for a wide range of other publications. He writes a monthly column on corporate governance for Financial Director magazine and a Creative Accountant column for Accounting and Business. He is contributing editor of Corporate Financier, the monthly magazine of the ICAEW’s Corporate Finance Faculty, and he also writes a monthly column for PQ Accountant.

From 1992 to 2001 he wrote a weekly column for The Times and was latterly accountancy editor. He wrote 500 weekly columns for the paper during that time. He was named IFA Business Finance Journalist of the Year in 2004. In 2001 he won the IIA Award for Excellence in Business and Management Press Journalism for the second time and was also shortlisted for the Tax Journalist of the Year Award. He won the IIA Millennium Award for Excellence in Business and Management Press Journalism in 2000. He was named Accountancy Journalist of the Year in 1995.

Prior to his Times career, Robert was editor of Accountancy Age, the UK’s main professional weekly, for 10 years. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.