Latest Blogs

The Blog section facilitates scholarly reflections on timely topics. It also welcomes informed opinions and actively encourages practitioner and policy perspectives, including those with strong viewpoints. You can find three types of blogs:

  • “Research”: blogs based on recently published papers as well as working papers addressing timely topics.
  • “Education”: blogs related to teaching ideas, tips or issues.
  • “Impact and Engagement”: blogs through which members can share their perspectives on academic topics.

At the moment of preparing the blog, you may want to use one of the three categories to increase the visibility and access,

Moreover, an informal style is welcome and you may want to keep it within approximately 400 words.

Submissions to the Blog section are welcome at all times from EAA members. For further inquiry, you can contact Evisa Mitrou (e.mitrou@qmul.ac.uk).

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Audit Analytics
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Remote working and management control: A field study

How did remote working impact management control practices during the COVID crisis, and how did employees respond to these changes? We address these questions in a recently published paper in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, drawing on a field study of Italian professional service firms (PSFs). Below, we introduce the context of our study and highlight some key findings. Context Italy was the first country in Europe to be severely hit by the COVID-19 crisis,…
Berend van der Kolk
Berend van der Kolk
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New EAA Virtual Conversations: Academic empathy dialogues

“You do not have to understand a work of art or a style in order to criticize it, but you need to understand its attraction for someone who does… Criticism has no significance and no importance if it is not accompanied by understanding- and that implies the comprehension of at least the possibility of love” (Charles Rosen,  “Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New”) The EAA Virtual Activities Committee is pleased to announce the launch of…
GIOVANNA MICHELON
GIOVANNA MICHELON
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BAFA – SOUTH-EAST AREA GROUP – 2021 CONFERENCE

BAFA – SOUTH-EAST AREA GROUP – 2021 CONFERENCE FRIDAY 4 June 2021 Online Conference   The organising committee of the BAFA –SEAG is pleased to announce its annual conference to be held online on Friday, June 4th, 2021. The conference’s theme is on ‘Current Topics in Accounting and Finance Research’. The programme includes the following invited speakers:   Sudipta Basu, Temple University   Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs, Professor of Accounting and Robert Livingston Johnson…
ARC Commitee
ARC Commitee
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On the EAA Doctoral Colloquium

Message from the EAA President, President-Elect, and the Co-chairs of the EAA Doctoral Colloquium 8 May 2021 In mid-April, the EAA announced here the faculty composition for the 2021 EAA Doctoral Colloquium (DC). Subsequently, several respected colleagues (including former editors of EAR, EAA Management Committee members as well as DC co-chairs and faculty) voiced concerns. Their tenor: The current DC faculty composition looks deeply unbalanced and signals a lack of openness for qualitative, organizational and…
Thorsten Sellhorn
Thorsten Sellhorn
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Who Audits Public Companies – Italy

    This analysis was originally published by Audit Analytics.  Note: This analysis will be updated to reflect 2020’s market share once all annual reports have been filed. The Big Four firms account for a staggering 98% of the market share across Italy’s top 100 companies. Capturing the other 2% of the market is BDO, with just 2 companies; both of which are listed on the FTSE Italia Mid Cap. Interestingly, PwC has the largest number of…
Jessica McKeon
Jessica McKeon
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EAA Junior Network Lounge

The pandemic has considerably limited our ability to meet with peers and discuss our research interests and projects. We all miss the opportunity to meet new colleagues during breaks at conferences, discuss our papers and build a network of reference that helps the development of our research. The lack of network building is problematic especially for early career scholars, including PhD students and junior faculty with untenured positions, who are in the process of creating…
GIOVANNA MICHELON
GIOVANNA MICHELON
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Accounting Theory and Standard-Setting – Antecedents of Fair Value Accounting?

This blog entry arose because, coincidentally, in mid-February and March 2021  two articles appeared in Accounting History and Accounting Horizons respectively, discussing contributions to the literature of two members of the “Sydney School of Accounting”. One relates to the founder, Ray Chambers, the other to one its members, Frank Clarke. Both provide an understanding of the School’s focus, especially what is needed to reform accounting thought and practice. Reference to the Sydney School is attributed first to Murray Well’s…
Graeme Dean
Graeme Dean
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Academic Freedom under Attack: The Case of Leicester and Beyond

A blog by Charles Cho and Hendrik Vollmer As a follow-up to the Open Letter from the Editors of Critical Perspectives on Accounting posted here last Friday, we share our insights in this blog, as Editorial Board member of the journal and former University of Leicester faculty member, respectively. When University of Leicester School of Business faculty members entered into their first week of term-two teaching in January, 16 of them received a message from…
CHARLES CHO
CHARLES CHO
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