A number of forces push towards innovation and the acceptance of new teaching methods in Australian university business schools. Large class sizes and diversity of the student population often characterised by a significant international student cohort, the increasing complexity of topics (such...

This paper analyses the findings of an experiment in the use of use of team based learning (herein after referred to as TBL) to improve the performance of undergraduate accounting students. Innovation and the acceptance of new teaching methods is increasingly trend in Australian accounting...

I present two types of data about the publication and review process in the accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing, psychology, and natural science disciplines. First, I collect all articles published in 2012 in top tier journals of these disciplines and compare the articles based...

Many question the value of accounting scholarship to society. We compared the attention the general public, policy makers, and academics give to academic accounting research relative to other business disciplines and other more general disciplines (economics, psychology, and other sciences). The...

We examine the relation between a measure of male CEOs' facial masculinity and financial misreporting. Facial masculinity is associated with a complex of masculine behaviors (including aggression, egocentrism, risk-seeking, and maintenance of social status) in males. One possible mechanism for...

Although case pedagogy has frequently been associated with the Harvard Business School, one can trace the origins of the case-based reasoning to the Abrahamic monotheistic revealed scriptures (Christensen and Hansen, 1987, p.16). This paper elaborates on the case method in a graduate...

Despite the amount of accounting ethics research conducted over many years, ways to improve the measurement instruments and to make them appropriate for application in other cultures or countries are still needed. In that direction, the main purpose of this study is to test a modified...

Russian Abstract: В работе обосновано применение термина «властоментальность» в качестве русскоязычного наименования концепта governmentality (англ.) для анализа способов...

The IRS's audit enforcement policy is based on the principle that audits deter taxpayers from cheating and therefore increase voluntary tax compliance. For more than forty years, however, there has been considerable debate over whether higher audit rates actually contribute to increased...

How do a few Third World conflicts become international causes célèbres, while most remain isolated and unknown? Why, for instance, has there been so much recent attention to the Darfur crisis but so little to ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite vastly more casualties...