The first step in sound business management is to realize that accounting reports complying with tax rules are improper …

Purpose This paper aims to highlight the influence of culture in the accounting profession and introduce/advance a … framework for cultural competence in the accounting field. Design/methodology/approach This paper is written for academics and … practitioners, focusing on strategies to promote cultural competency in the accounting profession. It includes professional …

The finance and accounting processes tend to be mistakenly viewed only as necessary functions of month‐end closing and … this view of finance is to change the focus and processes of the finance and accounting functions. The author describes the …

accurate cost accounting provides a substantial payoff. Practical implications – Resource‐allocation decisions based on … nonprofit sector resists adopting accounting systems that measure true costs.  …

and business professionals in the technically complex field of greenhouse gas accounting. Design …/methodology/approach – This paper drew on accounting, audit and assurance‐based field work whilst the author was employed with a “Big 4 …” accounting firm and undertaken with a range of Australian companies preparing to report greenhouse gas emissions to the …

first‐year student success in Financial Accounting. Design/methodology/approach – The perspectives of tutors and students … Accounting and South African context.  …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the profile of accounting research in the two academic accounting … research journals in South Africa ( Meditari Accountancy Research and SA Journal of Accounting Research ) during the ten … (in this case the articles published in the South African (SA) accounting research journals) to come to research …

with the South African accounting community. All dimensions of this article indicate that Meditari Accountancy Research has … limitations/implications – Given that this study relates to one accounting research journal only, there is no specific benchmark … challenge is to maintain the traditional South African links while meeting the needs of a changing international accounting …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to describe the multiplicity of the role of the Accounting academic as a … teaching and learning in the field of Accounting. Design/methodology/approach – Through a literature review and the collection … of qualitative data (using purposive sampling), this study describes the Accounting academic’s role as a knowledge agent …