Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 24 Issue 7

From go to woe: How a not‐for‐profit managed the change to accrual accounting

Helen Irvine

The aim of this paper is to examine the process of change in an Australian not‐for‐profit organization, from a cash‐based to an accrual‐based accounting system. Its particular…

In pursuit of environmental excellence: A stakeholder analysis of the environmental management strategies and performance of an Australian energy company

Monir Zaman Mir, Abu Shiraz Rahaman

This paper aims to provide a stakeholder analysis of the environmental management strategies and a two‐dimensional (economic and environmental) performance of an Australian energy…

Bankrupt accountants and lawyers: Transition in the rise of professionalism in Victorian Scotland

Thomas A. Lee

The purpose of this paper is to study the incidence, impact, and consequences of accountant and lawyer bankruptcies in Victorian Scotland. The paper examines these bankruptcies in…

“Breaking up the sky”: The characterisation of accounting and accountants in popular music

David Smith, Kerry Jacobs

This paper aims to present an examination of the characterisation of accounting and accountants in popular music. Some authors have considered the place of accounting in popular…

Old fossils and accounting history

Jayne Bisman

This poem aims to present a satirical critique and a defence of the role of accounting historians.

In the pudding factory

Ray Tyndale

The poem aims to be a reflection on the tension between dedication to the task and the temptation to take one's own reward as a worker.

She pays her bills, mate

Ray Tyndale

This poem aims to offer a concise representation of practised gender bias, in favour of the male, in business dealings, and to challenge that behaviour.

Special issue on accounting, accountants, and accountability regimes in pluralistic societies: taking multiple perspectives seriously

Inconvenient truths?

Steve Evans