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Accounting Research Bulletins were documents issued by the US Committee on Accounting Procedure between 1938 and 1959 on various accounting problems. They were discontinued with the dissolution of the Committee in 1959 under a recommendation from the Special Committee on Research Program. [ 1 ]
Accounting for Income Taxes—Investments in Common Stock Accounted for by the Equity Method (Other than Subsidiaries and Corporate Joint Ventures) full-text: Apr. 1972 Parts deleted; Superseded by FASB Statement 96, para. 203(d), and FASB Statement 109, para. 286(d) 25. Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees full-text: Oct. 1972 Amended
Accounting research is carried out both by academic researchers and by practicing accountants.Academic accounting research addresses all areas of the accounting profession, and examines issues using the scientific method; it uses evidence from a wide variety of sources, including financial information, experiments, computer simulations, interviews, surveys, historical records, and ethnography.
During 1939 to 1959 CAP issued 51 Accounting Research Bulletins that dealt with a variety of timely accounting problems. However, this problem-by-problem approach failed to develop the much needed structured body of accounting principles.
Positive accounting emerged with empirical studies that proliferated in accounting in the late 1960s. It was organized as an academic school of thought of discipline by the work of Ross Watts and Jerold Zimmerman (in 1978 and 1986) at the William E. Simon School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester, and by the founding of the Journal of Accounting and Economics in 1979.
The Accounting Review is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Accounting Association (AAA) that covers accounting with a scope encompassing any accounting-related subject and any research methodology. The Accounting Review is one of the oldest accounting journals, and recent studies considered it to be one of the ...
The role of the public accountancy profession in working for or against the public interest is a key theme in public interest accounting. Abe Briloff's article, "Accountancy and Society: A Covenant Desecrated," [4] argues that public accounting firms have a social contract granting them monopoly privileges in return for protecting public interest.
The Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering topics in the field of accounting that includes theoretical, empirical, and experimental research. RAST prioritizes processing submitted manuscripts and aims to provide authors with accept-reject decisions early in the review process.