For more than 70 years, William Paton contributed his considerable energy and knowledge to the development of accounting thought. He was one of the early accounting educators to express the high purpose of accounting and its importance in the university, and he was among the early theorists in...

This paper reports the results of a content analysis of 38 textbooks across the three areas of financial accounting, management accounting, and auditing as recommended by institutions in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The overall picture to emerge is that IT and related topics are a...