Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management: Volume 7 Issue 3

Accounting in the media

Grant Samkin

The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction and overview of the various papers in this special issue.

Prem Sikka and the media: using the media to hold accountants to account

S. Lawrence, M. Low, U. Sharma

The purpose of this paper is to understand why a professor of accounting uses the media to expose the failure/shortcomings of the accounting profession. Using Prem Sikka's…

Using the media to hold accountants to account: some observations

Prem Sikka

The purpose of this paper is to broaden discussions about the role of the public sphere in broadening social choices, with particular focus on accountancy magazines and national…

The financial crisis and mark‐to‐market accounting: An analysis of cascading media rhetoric and storytelling

William L. Smith, David M. Boje, Kevin D. Melendrez

The purpose of this paper is to analyze media storytelling and rhetoric surrounding the credibility of the longstanding accounting practice of mark‐to‐market valuation.

Threats to the New Zealand Serious Fraud Office: an institutional perspective

K.A. Van Peursem, A. Balme

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate threats to dissolve the New Zealand Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as interpreted through the public press.

(Re)presentation of women in Indian accountancy bodies' web sites

Orthodoxia Kyriacou, Jatin Pancholi, Angathevar Baskaran

The purpose of this paper is to explore the representation of women in two Indian accounting professional bodies' web sites: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI…

Interpreting pictorial messages of intellectual capital in company media

Jill Hooks, Natasja Steenkamp, Ross Stewart

Companies use figures within the annual report to send messages. The purpose of this paper is to explore the opinions and understandings of annual report preparers who produce the…

Accounting: an un‐Australian activity?

Steve Evans, Kerry Jacobs

The purpose of this paper is to understand if accounting is an un‐Australian activity, contrasting the notion of the bush and bushman present in popular Australian poetry and…

Professional accounting media: accountants handing over control to the system

Gudrun Baldvinsdottir, John Burns, Hanne Nørreklit, Robert Scapens

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between management accounting software and the management accountant, as (re)produced in adverts appearing in professional…

Special issue on qualitative approaches to practice-relevant management accounting research

8th Conference of the European Network for Research in Organisational and Accounting Change (ENROAC)

Special issue on ANT/performative research in management accounting