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“Pitching Research” to an accounting academic expert – a difficult task made easier

  Being a PhD student isn’t easy. It’s especially terrifying right at the onset of your research journey. After wading through the literature, you have some ideas you think might work, but it’s easy to be overwhelmed. What is worth pursuing? Will it work? Will it be publishable? You’re about to spend the next few years working on your research, but you have no idea where or how to start. You need a reliable plan. …
Robert Faff
Robert Faff
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Questions from my first doctoral supervision

My first doctoral students recently graduated after a four years journey, giving me the opportunity to reflect back on my “new” completed experience as a supervisor. Overall, the supervision has been an amazing expedition aimed at growing a scholar, sharing knowledge, and developing new projects. The effect of this engagement on my own work have also been positive. It has re-energized my research agenda, made me discover the rewards of mentoring, and broken a certain…
Bertrand Malsch
Bertrand Malsch
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What does an accounting academic do?

Students and the public often perceive academics as teachers, and have no idea of the many other important roles that one undertakes. This paper reflects on the daily life of an academic accounting.  Written by Dr. Rhoda Brown and Trustees of the British Accounting and Finance Association (Chris Brooks, John Cullen, Lisa Jack, Richard Jackson and Kevin McMeeking) Most accounting academics have an anecdote concerning questions from well-meaning relatives or friends about what it is,…
Kevin McMeeking
Kevin McMeeking
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Academic Database

The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) is today launching a new <IR> Academic Database, bringing together over 200 academic studies highlighting the potential positive ramifications of adopting integrated reporting, as well as commenting on emerging best practice.   Research included in the database concludes that integrated reporting leads to increased stock liquidity, better performance, higher market valuation and a longer-term investor base for the businesses that adopt it. The database, which is a freely available…
LAURA GIRELLA
LAURA GIRELLA
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Transferring Audit Research Knowledge to Audit Standard Setters and Regulators

This blog entry is based on my closing plenary talk at the Foundation for Audit Research International Conference in the Netherlands in June 2018. The first paper related to this talk appears in Accounting Perspectives in the Fall 2018 issue. I want to thank my research colleagues, Kris Hoang at the University of Alabama, Yi Luo at Queen&rsquo;s University and Jim Sylph formerly of the International Federation of Accountants and the International Auditing and Assurance…
STEVEN SALTERIO
STEVEN SALTERIO
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On Humanities in Business Education

In the years leading up the last French Presidential election, economic growth, or &ldquo;la croissance&rdquo;, became a political buzzword in France. The French president at the time, Fran&ccedil;ois Hollande, staked his reelection on growth. He failed to deliver and never put his name forward for a second shot at being le pr&eacute;sident. His Minister of the Economy, Emmanuel Macron, was responsible for delivering la croissance yet failed to do so. He ended up with the…
Claudine Mangen
Claudine Mangen
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Why theory can make a difference for archival empirical accounting research

When you work on an archival empirical research project, have you ever read analytical models, for example, agency, rational expectation, disclosure, contracting, signaling, and other economic models? A typical perception is that they are difficult to read and to understand, there is a lot of math, their results are highly specific, and they are based on many assumptions. Why invest time into comprehending them? Below, I will try to convince you that such investment is…
ALFRED WAGENHOFER
ALFRED WAGENHOFER
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Male-only Oscars? Why gender matters for teaching awards

This blog has been written by Anne JENY and Laurence LESCOURRET and it is also available at the PedagoLab@ESSEC Why are there different interpretive awards for actors and actresses, but no consideration of gender in teacher performance evaluations in the classroom? It has been shown for many years that there is a gender bias in student assessments (see Basow, 1995). Gender bias exists if female and male professors obtain different evaluations which cannot be explained…
ANNE JENY-CAZAVAN
ANNE JENY-CAZAVAN
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AFGR – Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting and Social Change

Much of mainstream accounting and finance research is rooted in a neoliberal ideology that prioritises the pursuit of individualistic self-interests and wealth maximisation. The overly simplistic nature of this ideology enables a &lsquo;calculative rationale&rsquo;, whereby the production of financial information in reports and associated guidance is understood as an objective endeavour. From this perspective, accountants are often seen to play a passive role in the production of financial information regarding organisations. However, this relationship can…
Matthew Sorola
Matthew Sorola
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EAA teams up with National Associations

The EAA has initiated partnerships with national associations with the aim of fostering the development of accounting academics, especially junior scholars and PhD students, and promoting joint projects. The first collaboration was set up with the Portuguese Network of Accounting Research (Grudis) and involved the participation of a prominent EAA academic as guest speaker in the Doctoral Colloquium and Annual Conference of Grudis. A similar collaboration established with the Association Francophone de Comptabilit&eacute; (AFC) supported…
Helena Isidro
Helena Isidro
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