The failure of an accounting standard on inflation was chosen for this oral history study, examining the outcomes from the 1982 promulgation CCA-1 in New Zealand. This required companies to consider inflation when measuring their assets and liabilities, and thus affecting revenues also.However,...

This research explores how an oral history can inform our understanding of accounting partnership income allocation models. Forty oral history interviews of CPA firm partners indicated a widespread impact from unclear and instable role definitions in performance-based compensation arrangements....

The Big 4 accounting firms (previously Big 8, Big 6 and Big 5) have spread around the world and dominate the market for auditing services in most countries. Until relatively recently, this was not the case, and each country's accounting profession was led by local firms. The spread of these...

This study offers an examination of the decision and implementation in New Zealand of a personal property security regime based in North American Article 9 Models, with specific focus on the approach in force in Saskatchewan at that time. Subsequent to the New Zealand Personal Property...

Oral history reports are replete with discovery, an unexpected depth of emotion associated with recall, and the benefit of reflection some time after an event by those most intimately involved. A recent research project interviewing forty older partners in large accounting firms in New Zealand...

Financial vulnerability is a critical issue for nonprofit sports clubs due to clubs' increasing costs and impediments to generating sufficient income. The first objective of this study is to derive a conceptual understanding of financial vulnerability for sports clubs by assessing three...

This paper reports on the findings of a series of experiments which investigated the perceived message in four different audit reports. The study involved 252 participants, 125 in New Zealand and 127 in the United Kingdom. In a between-groups design, the participants were allocated to four...

This study examines whether profit-sharing arrangements within accounting firms are associated with the riskiness of their client portfolios. Our results use unique data about the profit-sharing arrangements of the Big 8 firms during the period 1985 to 1994. We investigate whether there is a...

The objective of this study is to review the manner in which oral histories address the 'problem' of memory, and to use an example from a 2002 oral history project concerning accounting partnerships in New Zealand to illustrate aspects of this problem. Many of the interviewees in 2002 recalled...