The accounting group conducts world-class research in five key areas: Accounting, Accountability and Global Development; Publicness and Resilience: Environment, Climate Change and Vulnerability; Capital Markets, Audit, Regulation and Reporting; and Precarity, Exclusion and Social Justice.
We are home to an international community of academics and students. The group has established strengths in conducting world-class research in accounting from an interdisciplinary perspective. We draw our research, primarily on economics, sociology, law, management and organization, political theories, psychology and cultural studies.
In line with the research strategy of the 糖心Vlog and of 糖心Vlog Business School, particularly in terms of improving the impact and relevance of our research, and its aforementioned strengths, the Accounting group has identified a number of research streams for the coming years. These research streams are drawn from current and emerging social, environmental, political, economic and health issues or questions. For example, these issues are reflected in the following: themes set out by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), the UN鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), contemporary debates on the role of transparency reforms, reporting initiatives (e.g. IASB Foundation; EU鈥檚 Non-Financial Reporting Directive), the future of the accounting and auditing profession, climate change, the role of the corporation (e.g. British Academy鈥檚 Future of the Corporation), widening socio-economic inequalities, equality, diversity and inclusion, the role of the State, and finally the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a group, we contend that accounting, reporting, financial technologies and governance mechanisms are deeply implicated in these issues.
Professor Ileana Steccolini is part of the international team who co-edited the special issue of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal titled The pervasive role of accounting and accountability during the COVID-19 emergency, outlining the key role of accounting in targeting resources to battle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Below is a selection of our most notable publications:
Our members are frequently invited to speak and attend high profile academic events. Below is a selection of some of our notable appearances:
Accounting and Accountability in Emerging Economies Conference (the biannual international conference and a doctoral colloquium), 2018.
Workshop for the Management Control Association on Strong Structuration Theory. 2017.
Workshop on critical realism and accounting, from which a special issue of Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2016.
Paper develop ment workshop organised in association with British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA).2016.
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Our academic staff frequently feature within the wider press and media. Below are some examples of their latest appearances:
The Accounting group contributed heavily to the rapid growth of academic research on accounting in emerging economies, and it has become recognized as a significant field within much of accounting academia. This is marked by the founding in 2010 of specialist research journal, the of which Professor Shahzad Uddin is founding editor, special editions of leading journals on topics in this area, and generally growing contributions from a wide variety of countries. Professor Shahzad Uddin is also the founding president of .
Professor Teerooven is currently the President of the (2020-2022) and President of the (2019-2021). He is also a Vice President At-Large (2020-2022) of the .
Ileana Steccolini is the editor of and of the book series of Accounting and Accountability in Public Services. She is the founder and chair of the , where group members are actively involved to contribute to the Special Interest Group mission to explore publicness in accounting research, and the role of accountability and accounting in the public sector.
The members of the group are also involved in editorial boards, as well as in editing special issues, of relevant public sector and accounting journals.