Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 16 Issue 5

Beyond a critique of pure reason: From policy to politics to praxis in environmental and social research

Tony Tinker, Rob Gray

Sustainability – in the sense of a system of deep‐rooted social justice and a fair and responsible allocation and use of ecological resources – requires a political philosophy…

Accounting for biodiversity: operationalising environmental accounting

Michael John Jones

This study seeks to operationalise the reporting of corporate natural assets (i.e. habitats, flora and fauna). A natural inventory model is used, building on existing methodology…

Understanding the dynamics of the Australian accounting profession: A prosopographical study of the founding members of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants, Victoria, 1886 to 1908

Garry D. Carnegie, John Richard Edwards, Brian P. West

Numerous studies have examined the institutional setting of accounting as a professional occupation. However, institutional deeds and outcomes derive from the behaviour of…

The railway mania of 1845‐1847: Market irrationality or collusive swindle based on accounting distortions?

S. McCartney, A.J. Arnold

The wild boom and slump of 1845‐1847 was the most important of the nineteenth century railway manias, in terms both of its scale and effects on the economy as a whole. It has…

Corporate propaganda: its implications for accounting and accountability

David J. Collison

This paper examines the nature of propaganda and its use by corporations, particularly in the USA, over a period of nearly 100 years. It emphasises the invisibility of much of…

Fourth Asian Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference

Sixth International Management Control Systems Research Conference

10th World Congress of Accounting Historians