Meditari Accountancy Research: Volume 31 Issue 1

COVID-19 and accounting as multidimensional technical, social and moral practice: a framework for future research

Garry D. Carnegie, Delfina Gomes, Karen McBride

The purpose of this study is to augment an understanding of the importance and relevance of a proposed new definition of accounting to reset, inform and develop accounting…

Crisis accountability and aged “care” during COVID-19

Erin Jade Twyford

This study aims to fill the gaps in mandated reports with social accounts to provide more inclusive accountability during a crisis using the illustrative example of Anglicare’s…

Accounting, valuing and investing in health care: dealing with outdated accounting models

Gillian Vesty, Olga Kokshagina, Miia Jansson, France Cheong, Kerryn Butler-Henderson

Despite major progress made in improving the health and well-being of millions of people, more efforts are needed for investment in 21st century health care. However, public…

Readdressing accountability for occupational health and safety in a pandemic era

Lee Parker, Venkateshwaran Narayanan

In the Covid-19 pandemic era, corporate responsibility and accountability for maintaining employee health and safety, particularly from this pernicious virus, have become a matter…

Responding to crises: rewilding accounting education for the Anthropocene

Lisa Powell, Nicholas McGuigan

Responding to COVID-19, this conceptual paper uses rewilding to interrupt anthropocentric and human/nature dualist properties of accounting education. Through rewilding accounting…

Teaching the concept of decision-usefulness, and accounting as a technical, social and moral practice: the case of COVID-19 “case number” reporting

Shannon I.L. Sidaway, Daniela Juric, Craig Deegan

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how teaching broader accounting concepts through real life non-financial case study information (such as COVID-19 case reporting) can…

Revitalising the enterprise university post-COVID 19: a focus on business schools

Brendan O'Connell, Meredith Tharapos, Paul De Lange, Nicola Beatson

The purpose of this study is to provide a polemic on the evolution of universities and business schools over the past two decades. During this period, universities have…

Account(share)ability through social media during the COVID-19 emergency: the case of universities

Eleonora Masiero, Giulia Leoni, Carlo Bagnoli

This paper aims at exploring how and to what extent universities enlisted Facebook, a social media platform, in the discharging and shaping of their accountability during the…

Broadening the boundaries of accounting: a call for interdisciplinarity in the calculative era

Erin Jade Twyford, Roba Abbas

This paper aims to present a preliminary exploration of the intersections between the accounting and information systems (IS) disciplines. Using the illustrative example of the…