Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 25 Issue 4

Accounting and popular culture: framing a research agenda

Ingrid Jeacle

The objective of this paper is to recognize the richness in exploring the inter‐linkages between accounting and popular culture. Such an investigation should reap returns in not…

Vulgate accountability: insights from the field of football

Christine Cooper, Joanne Johnston

The purpose of this paper is to critically reflect upon the use of the term accountability in the twenty‐first century and its role in “remaking the world in favour of the most…

“How easy can the barley brie”: Drinking culture and accounting failure at the end of the nineteenth century in Britain

William J. Jackson, Audrey S. Paterson, Christopher K.M. Pong, Simona Scarparo

This paper seeks to extend the development of the historical accounting research agenda further into the area of popular culture. The work examines the discourses that surrounded…

Accounting and detective stories: an excursion to the USA in the 1940s

Barbara Czarniawska

This paper aims to explore accounting across time and space via novels.

Constructing accounting in the mirror of popular music

Kerry Jacobs, Steve Evans

This paper aims to explore how accounting is entwined in the cultural practice of popular music. Particular attention is paid to how the accountant is constricted by artists in…

Jokes in popular culture: the characterisation of the accountant

Frances Miley, Andrew Read

The accountant has been characterised in popular culture as dull and boring. Accounting scholarship consistently describes this stereotype as negative. The purpose of this…

Fashioning the popular masses: accounting as mediator between creativity and control

Ingrid Jeacle, Chris Carter

The paper aims to investigate accounting's role as a mediating instrument between the tensions of creativity and control within the price competitive world of the fashion chain…

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