Editorial

Citation

Ball, A., Milne, M.J. and Maberly, E. (2007), "Editorial", Pacific Accounting Review, Vol. 19 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/par.2007.34219aaa.001

Editorial

Welcome to Vol. 19 No. 1 of the Pacific Accounting Review. From 2007, the Pacific Accounting Review has become part of the Emerald Group Publishing Limited’s stable of accounting and finance journals. In keeping with 18 years tradition, we indeed feel privileged to serve as the new editorial team of the Pacific Accounting Review. Our editorial team from the University of Canterbury, Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems, and the Department of Accounting and Finance, Monash University, includes joint editors Amanda Ball, Markus J. Milne and Edwin Maberly, book review editor Richard Fisher, and editorial assistant Annette Wanty. With academic backgrounds from New Zealand, the UK, and the USA, we hope to continue to bring to PAR readers an international range of scholarship utilising as necessary our international contacts. Under our leadership, the aims and scope of PAR will remain unchanged. PAR will continue to be known for publishing papers on a wide range of topics, and for encouraging research using a wide range of research methodologies. Consequently, we continue to encourage an eclectic range of submissions of quality scholarship in all areas of accounting, auditing, finance and related fields like taxation which are of interest to a wide range of academics and practitioners. And in keeping with previous volumes, we also encourage research from outside of the Pacific region. As members of the editorial team, we remain open to enquiries from prospective authors about the suitability of their work in progress for publication in PAR.

We are conscious of the 18 years of careful editorship undertaken by our colleagues, and academic quality remains the first criteria for paper acceptance. All papers, following initial screening by the editors for appropriateness, will be subjected to double-blind peer review drawn from PAR’s international editorial board and other experienced academics acting as ad hoc reviewers. Each year we will publish a list of our reviewers. In keeping with previous volumes, we also plan to maintain the book reviews section.

Our thanks go to the previous editorial team of Keitha Dunstan, Martin Lally, Tony Van Zijl, Judy Brown, Vanessa Borg, and Robyn McNeil of Victoria University, Wellington. They have admirably managed the journal since 2003. Not only have they maintained the quality of the journal and boosted its profile during their term, they have also been instrumental, along with members of the PAR Trust, in seeing the journal become part of Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Emerald’s international profile and their web-based access will be a boost to authors, readers and our editorial team.

Amanda Ball, Markus J. Milne, Edwin Maberly