Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 27 Issue 4

Rhetoric and argument in social and environmental reporting: the Dirty Laundry case

Niamh M. Brennan, Doris M. Merkl-Davies

The purpose of this paper is to explore the interactive element in social and environmental reporting during a controversy between business organisations and a stakeholder over…

Weaving a web of control : “The Promise of Opportunity” and work-life balance in multinational accounting firms

Puja Ladva, Jane Andrew

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between management controls and the work-life balance (WLB) of junior accountants working in four multinational accounting…

The rise and fall of the UK operating and financial review

N. Rowbottom, M.A.S. Schroeder

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the controversial repeal of legislation requiring UK companies to disclose an Operating and Financial Review (OFR). After a lengthy period…

Motivations for issuing standalone CSR reports: a survey of Canadian firms

Linda Thorne, Lois S. Mahoney, Giacomo Manetti

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the companies’ motivations to issue or not issue voluntary standalone corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports in the…

Historiography for accounting : Methodological contributions, contributors and thought patterns from 1983 to 2012

Garry D. Carnegie

The purpose of this paper is to examine the historiographic writings for accounting concerned with the craft of researching and writing history, published in the English-language…

Erratum notice

Editorial

Steve Evans

The conference

Barbara Marie L'Huillier

Fourth Biennial Global Accounting and Organizational Change Conference