Accounting and auditing are frequently cited as culprits in the current economic crisis. Traditional practices (including academic rationales) are coming under increased scrutiny. This paper proposes a way of beginning to reinvigorate the subject by returning to the classics. Accounting, as a...

Since the US voters elected Barack Obama in 2008 – the first African American President of the United States of America – we witness continual attacks on this first black president. The attacks by the Tea Party have been widely broadcast by those parts of the US media most sympathetic to...

The collapse of ABC Learning (ABC) is replete with lessons for accountants, auditors, executives and regulators. From its early beginnings, ABC's intervention into child care provision, gave plenty of red flags for anyone paying attention. Unfortunately, the euphoria, championed by Australian's...

This paper investigates the European accounting history from the Romanian, Cluj perspective. Accounting has several origins. This can be shown in the roots of accounting. One of the roles of the accounting historian community is to encourage the research of the founding fathers of accounting in...

For nearly three months, oil from the British Petroleum spill has been plaguing the Gulf of Mexico. This is yet another environmental catastrophe. The images the world receives from the media speak for themselves. The editors of International Journal of Critical Accounting, once again, express...

The current economic crisis has engendered an unprecedented amount of soul searching in academia. Old ways are just not working. Worse: these old habits helped precipitate the crisis. History and classical literature are coming to the fore as sources of new inspiration. We intend that the...

This brief introduction announces a new series of accounting classics, beginning with the nomination of Abe Briloff's book: Unaccountable Accounting: Games Accountants Play.

This editorial is based on a presentation to The City University of New York Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies Situations Salon. Drawing on the 'Twelve steps to deregulatory heaven' documented in Multinational Monitor, Friday, 6 March 2009, the authors outline their own 15 steps to...

The world financial and economic crisis is the worse since the Great Depression. But it should not be forgotten that climate change is dangerously and continuously destroying planet earth. This editorial does not deny the importance of the economic mess that bankers and hedge-fund managers have...