We revisit the question of whether the academic accounting profession is in decline. We use data gathered from Hasselback directories of accounting faculty from 1974 to 2016 as our primarily data source and confirm prior results suggesting a decrease in the number of assistant accounting...

We examine a number of characteristics of the academic accounting career. On average, an assistant professor is promoted to associate rank after 6.46 years as an assistant, and 5.62 years at her current school. An assistant professor moves just under 1 times before promotion to associate. An...