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Prior to 1929 no group – public or private – was issuing or responsible for any accounting [4] standards. After the 1929 stock market crash, a call to regain the public's confidence and investor's trust was demanded and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 was passed resulting in public companies being supervised by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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.
The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis is a peer-reviewed academic journal published eight times a year by the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in cooperation with the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, Boston College Carroll School of Management, HEC Paris, the Purdue University Krannert School of Management, and the ...
According to a 2006 meta-analysis of studies of accounting journals, the journal was at the time one of the five accounting journals to be consistently ranked as top accounting journals. [11] According to Google Scholar, the most cited articles are: Hood, Christopher (1995). "The "New Public Management' in the 1980s: variations on a theme".
Qualitative considerations of materiality are therefore different from in private-sector auditing, in which qualitative considerations are focused on the effect on earnings per share, executive bonuses or other risks that are not applicable to governments. Qualitative materiality refers to the nature of a transaction or amount and includes many ...
Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation.
Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting: 0954-1314: 0.466 John Wiley & Sons [46] Sidney Gray, University of Sydney Richard Levich, New York University [46] Journal of Management Accounting Research: 1049-2127: 0.743 American Accounting Association [47] Ranjani Krishnan, Michigan State University [47] Journal of Taxation ...
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 ...