Accounting historians have long recognised accounting’s international scope but have typically concentrated their … research endeavours on region- or country-specific studies, or on investigating the diffusion of accounting ideas, techniques … and institutions from one country to others. Much potential exists to study the development of accounting from a …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the circumstances and implications of an episode of accounting change … arising from the extended use of accrual accounting within the Australian public sector. The matter under scrutiny is the … of “accounting's margins”. Findings – The survey reveals considerable diversity and subjectivity in the accounting …

Purpose – Beyond the public world of work, the home provides an arena for examining accounting and gender in everyday … life. This study aims to examine household accounting in Australia from the early nineteenth to around the mid … evidence on household accounting as prescribed in the didactic literature in Australia, and evidence of actual accounting …

their study on household accounting in Australia during the period from the 1820s to the 1960s. Design …/methodology/approach – The study adopts a microhistorical approach involving a detailed examination of actual accounting practices in the … permit their contextualisation and interpretation. Findings – The findings point to considerable variety in the accounting …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revisit the special issue of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal … published in 1996 on the theme “Accounting history into the twenty-first century”, in order to identify and assess the impact of … the special issue in shaping developments in the accounting history literature, and to consider issues for future …

of the publication of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (AAAJ). Design/methodology/approach – The paper …

accounting and controlling: • the creation of models which will accept imperfect information, • the effect of the use of … relationships between the data. Indeed, we have seen that imperfect accounting data has led to a radical reappraisal and extension … of the principal of double- entry accounting in order to obtain fuzzified financial statements. At the same time …

accounting model, or the financial conventions which determine how a company’s wealth and income is measured, have been … increasingly called into question. This wide-reaching movement, initiated in the United States by the Financial Accounting … Standards Board (FASB), and internationally by the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), aims to replace …

this regard, the key question--is fair value relevant?--can be analysed as follows: do fair value "accounting numbers … the basis and limitations of the traditional accounting model. He analyses then the determining factors in the emergence … users. Lastly, he presents a summary of the empirical studies carried out to assess the usefulness of fair value accounting …