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Accounting research examines how accounting is used by individuals, organizations and government as well as the consequences that these practices have. Starting from the assumption that accounting both measures and makes visible certain economic events, accounting research has studied the roles of accounting in organizations and society and the consequences that these practices have for ...
Public interest accounting is a branch of academic accounting research that attempts to understand how accounting practices and the activities of the accounting profession impact the public interest. Public interest-focused accounting research sheds light on the role of accounting in perpetuating unequal social relations, while attempting to ...
Accounting research is research in the effects of economic events on the process of accounting, the effects of reported information on economic events, and the roles of accounting in organizations and society. [68] [69] It encompasses a broad range of research areas including financial accounting, management accounting, auditing and taxation. [70]
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.
Accounting, Organizations and Society, 12(3), 207-234. Hopwood, A. G. (1983). On trying to study accounting in the contexts in which it operates. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 8(2-3), 287-305. Hopwood, A. G. (1972). An empirical study of the role of accounting data in performance evaluation. Journal of Accounting Research, 10:156-182.
Accounting, Organizations and Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. Its editors-in-chief are Marcia Annisette ( Schulich School of Business ), Mark E. Peecher ( University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ), and Keith Robson ( HEC Paris ). The journal focuses on the relationships between accounting and both human ...
Contemporary Accounting Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on all aspects of accounting's role within organizations, markets, or society. The journal publishes articles in all areas of accounting, (including audit, financial, information systems, and tax), using relevant methods (including analytical, archival, case study, empirical, experimental, or field); based ...
Accounting History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the history of accounting. The journal's editors-in-chief are Carolyn Fowler (Victoria University of Wellington), [1] Carolyn Cordery (Aston University) [2] and Laura Maran (RMIT University). [3][4] It was established in 1996 and is published by SAGE Publications in ...