Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 22 Issue 5

“Going to the movies”: accounting and twentieth century cinema

Ingrid Jeacle

Since its emergence in the early twentieth century, cinema has acquired a cultural identity. As purveyor of light entertainment, the local movie palace sold escapism at a cheap…

New Labour, Network Rail and the third way

Robert Jupe

The paper aims to examine the role, funding and status of Network Rail, a very significant example of New Labour's attempt to operationalise the “third way”. The analysis of…

Inertia and management accounting change: The role of ambiguity and contradiction between formal rules and routines

Martijn van der Steen

This paper aims to investigate ways in which inertia obstructs the adoption of new management accounting rules. Drawing on the view of management accounting as organisational…

Responsibility and accountability without direct control?: Local education authorities and the seeking of influence in the UK schools sector

Gloria Agyemang

This paper seeks to extend understanding of how being responsible and accountable for performance impacts on control processes between organisations.

Methodological Insights: Impression management: Developing and illustrating a scheme of analysis for narrative disclosures – a methodological note

Niamh M. Brennan, Encarna Guillamon‐Saorin, Aileen Pierce

This paper aims to develop a holistic measure for analysing impression management and for detecting bias introduced into corporate narratives as a result of impression management.

The plenary lecture

Rob Gray

This poem aims to present a reminder that the value of a presentation lies with the audience, not the speaker.

New and improved poem

Simon Lenthen

This poem aims to present a contemplation of the impact of marketing on creativity.

Compound interest

Steve Evans

2nd Global Accounting and Organizational Change Conference 2010

Special issue on climate change, greenhouse gas accounting, auditing and accountability