Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 26 Issue 8

Intra-professional hierarchies: the gendering of accounting specialisms in UK accountancy

Rihab Khalifa

Concomitant with the trend towards specialisation in UK accountancy and the rise of relatively separate formal spheres of professional work along formal specialisms such as tax…

The accounting profession's influence on academe: South African evidence

Elmar Retief Venter, Charl de Villiers

– This paper aims to examine the influence of academics who are members of the profession on academic institutions.

ISO auditing and the construction of trust in auditor independence

Dogui Kouakou, Olivier Boiral, Yves Gendron

This paper aims to examine, through a qualitative study, how auditor independence is socially constructed within the network of individuals involved in the realization of ISO…

The interface of power and charity in the government of poor: A case from the Italian context in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries

Stefania Servalli

Within the interface between power and charity, the purpose of this paper is to enhance an understanding of the role of charities in the administration of poor in local government…

Equity tension and new public management policy development and implementation in the water industry

Christopher John Hunt, John Staunton, Keitha Dunstan

Within the new public management (NPM) context, this paper aims to examine the inclusion of equity issues in pricing policy development and implementation in the water industry in…

Editorial

Steve Evans

The Creed of Good Governance

Milorad Novicevic