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Accounting History

Accounting History

Journal of the Accounting History Special Interest Group of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand

eISSN: 17493374 | ISSN: 10323732 | Current volume: 29 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly
Accounting History is a specialist, international peer-reviewed journal that encourages traditional, critical and interpretative historical research on the nature, roles, uses and impacts of accounting and provides a forum for the publication of high quality manuscripts on the historical development of accounting across all organisational forms. The journal is acknowledged as a premier journal in its field and is a prized resource for academics, practitioners and students who seek to augment understanding of accounting's past and use that understanding to elucidate accounting's present and its possible future development. Accounting History is the official journal of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand and has a collaborative relationship with its Accounting History Special Interest Group.

Unique attributes

As a major international research journal, Accounting History serves to advance an understanding of the interaction of accounting and its socio-economic and political environments within historical contexts. It promotes the study of accounting as a social practice as well as a technical practice and encourages the identification of the impacts of accounting and accounting change on organisational and social functioning and development. Therefore, the use of an array of theoretical perspectives drawn from relevant disciplines such as sociology, economics and political theory is encouraged in conducting critical and interpretive studies of accounting's past. Papers accepted for publication are subject to double-blind review to ensure academic rigour and robustness and to ensure integrity.

Topics

Papers that are suitable for publication in Accounting History span a wide range of topics and periods, and a variety of methodological approaches, including biography, prosopography, institutional history, public sector accounting history, business history through accounting records, comparative international accounting history, as well as innovative research methods. Such studies may involve commercial and public institutions as well as social institutions of any genre, including the family home, charities and religious institutions. Studies set firmly in the archive, comprising written or oral sources, and that span both time and space are particularly encouraged. Thematic special issues are regularly published in order to encourage innovative and relevant research in underdeveloped fields of enquiry or within emerging or re-emerging topics in contemporary accounting.

Key benefits

The broad scope and strong international focus of Accounting History makes it relevant to the accounting profession internationally, as well as a contributor to informing research, public policy setting and regulation, and to augmenting knowledge in other fields such as business, management, finance and economic history. Appreciated internationally as a leading journal in its field, Accounting History continues to provide historical perspectives on current issues and may inform or guide contemporary and future decision makers on accounting, organisational and social policy and associated regulatory developments.

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This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Accounting History is an international peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish high-quality historical papers. This includes explorations of the advent and development of accounting bodies, conventions, ideas, practices and rules as well as the individuals and the local, time-specific environmental factors that shaped accounting in its social, organisational or technical contexts. The method(s) and/or theoretical framework(s) used should be clearly articulated.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Joint Editors
Carolyn Cordery Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Carolyn Fowler Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Laura Maran RMIT University, Australia
Senior Associate Editor
Grant Samkin University of South Africa, South Africa
Associate Editors
Nicholas (Nick) Davis Charles Sturt University, Australia
Umesh Sharma University of Waikato, New Zealand
Rob Vosslamber University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Editorial Assistant
Anna Burnett-Howard Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Editorial Advisory Panel
Ingrid Jeacle University of Edinburgh, UK
Alessandro Lai Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Christopher J. Napier Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Lee D. Parker University of Glasgow, UK
Grietjie Verhoef University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Stephen P. Walker University of Edinburgh, UK
Editorial Board
Marcia Annisette York University, Canada
Valerio Antonelli Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
C. Richard Baker Adelphi University, USA
Juan Baños Sánchez-Matamoros Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla, Spain
Federico Barnabè Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
Luca Bartocci Università degli studi di Perugia, Italy
Didier Bensadon Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Michele Bigoni University of Kent, UK
Merridee Bujaki Carleton University, Canada
Kees Camfferman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Salvador Carmona IE University, Spain
Nieves Carrera IE University, Spain
Roy Chandler Cardiff University, UK
Deirdre Collier Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA
Corinne Cortese University of Wollongong, Australia
Shanta Davie Newcastle University, UK
Stephanie Decker University of Birmingham, UK
Tiziana Di Cimbrini Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy
Michael Doron California State University Northridge, USA
Maria C. Dyball University of Sydney, Australia
John Richard Edwards Cardiff University, UK
Lisa Evans University of Stirling, UK
Christine Fournes Ecole de Management de Normandie, France
Elena Giovannoni University of Birmingham, UK
Delfina Gomes Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Abdel Halabi Federation University, Australia
Theresa A. Hammond San Francisco State University, USA
Fernando Gutierrez-Hidalgo Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla, Spain
Sebastian Hoffmann HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany
Jane Hronsky University of Melbourne, Australia
Kirsten W. Kininmonth University of Glasgow, UK
Sriyalatha Kumarasinghe University of Otago, New Zealand
Carlos Larrinaga Universidad de Burgos, Spain
Giulia Leoni Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Ellen J. Lippman University of Portland, USA
Wei Lu Monash University, Australia
Marta Macias Universidas Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Karen McBride University of Portsmouth, UK
Frances M. Miley University of Sussex, UK
Lee C. Moerman University of Wollongong, Australia
Sara Moggi Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Anil Narayan Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Masayoshi Noguchi Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Brendan O'Connell RMIT University, Australia
Catriona Paisey University of Strathclyde, UK
Martin Persson University of Illinois, USA
Brad Potter University of Melbourne, Australia
Martin Quinn Queens University Belfast, UK
Andrew Read University of Sussex, UK
Morina Rennie University of Regina, Canada
Angelo Riccaboni Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
Janette Rutterford The Open University Business School, UK
Raluca Sandu SKEMA Business School, France
Alan Sangster University of Aberdeen, UK
Massimo Sargiacomo Universita degli Studi G. d'Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Stefania Servalli Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy
Suki Sian Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Riccardo Stacchezzini Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Anna Szychta University of Lodz, Poland
Thomas N. Tyson St John Fisher College, USA
Sandra van der Laan University of Sydney, Australia
Eagle Zhang University of Sydney, Australia
Henri Zimnovitch Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
  • ArticleFirst
  • Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC)
  • Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Accounting
  • Clarivate Analytics: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
  • EBSCO
  • OCLC: Electronic Collections Online
  • ProQuest 5000
  • ProQuest Accounting & Tax Database
  • ProQuest Central
  • ProQuest: CSA Advanced Technologies Database
  • ProQuest: Professional ProQuest Central
  • SciVal
  • Scopus
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