In the UK, the accountancy profession plays an important and influential role in the audit and regulation of economic and social affairs. Although an increasing amount of interest is currently being taken in the role of accounting and auditing in society, comparatively little attention has been...

Amplifies and addresses a number of issues raised by Gray (1992) in his review of the Fabian paper Accounting for Change: Proposals for Reform of Audit and Accounting . It explores the terrain of self‐reflection where the accounting academic struggles with the question of what it may mean in...

In the UK and elsewhere, accounting vocabularies and practices have come to permeate everyday life through their involvement in the management of hospitals, schools, universities, charities, trade unions, etc. This has been accompanied by an increase in the power of accountancy and the...

The article is the response to a reply to the authors′ earlier article (in this journal) criticising the UK audit standard‐setting process. The reply claimed the article failed to prevent a balanced review of the “due process”, was not clear as to what constitutes “public interest”,...

"An outspoken opinion piece on the impact of neo-liberalism on society in Britain and New Zealand, based on Mitchell's popular lectures as a visiting fellow at the University of Canterbury in 2016. In his down-to-earth and lively style, Mitchell, who experienced politics first-hand as a...