In “Culture: the Anthropologist's Account” (1999) Adam Kuper advised avoidance of the use of the word ‘culture' at all. It has come to denote too much and has now come to mean too little. However, just as “the history of all cultures is the history of cultural borrowing” (Edward Said,...

A cross-cultural initiative was undertaken in a second year accounting course, in order to help students understand more about NZ biculturalism, and matters which are important to Maori communities. The mechanism was to deliver to a second year accounting class of financial reporting (ACCY 231)...

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...

Purpose – The evolution of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) was nurtured by economists and accountants loyal to the philosophical basis of what is often referred to as “Western” market economies, being classical and neoclassical contracting theories. The purpose of this...

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,...

Purpose – Accounting research has struggled with how ethnicity is to be understood in relation to concepts such as nation and nationality and how ethnicity may impact on accounting and auditing practices, behaviours, education and professional values. These themes are explored and developed in...