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,...

“Translations – of deep resonances and felt connections – are difficult, if not impossible, to make; one can learn another language, but acquiring all of the cultural accoutrements that accompany language is another story” (Bullaro, 2005).It is the objective of this study to review the...

The purpose of this paper is to offer a Bourdieu-oriented study that investigates race discrimination when graduates of diverse ethnicities aspire to enter the accounting profession. This study illustrates the benefits of a careful and fine-grained operationalization of ethnicity for such a...

This book chapter offers some analysis of the historic role of the UN, the educational activities of the OECD, and current level of activities of the World Bank and the IMF with regards to standard setting. In order to do this, this chapter describes some details of these four organizations...

Funding and financial management are critical issues for the not-for-profit sector. Funding is limited, competitively sought, and differences in funders' and organisations' expectations and needs can cause dysfunction. Sport is an important segment of the not-for-profit sector in New Zealand...

Institutional theory discusses whether organizations enhance their survival by converging around socially legitimated forms.This study contributes to this literature by examining the evolution of strategic choices among mid-tier and large accounting firms. The results show that the change in...

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the construct of ethnicity can best be determined for empirical analysis in accounting research, particularly in the Pacific region.This paper reviews relevant sociological and accounting literature. In addition, it presents the results of a case study...