This dissertation examines two research questions that contribute to our understanding of the role of accounting …

Incentives of executives and board of directors play an important role in corporate decisions. Principal agent theory …

Accounting is conventionally constituted and practised as a quantitative discipline which emphasises the use of money … take precedence. However, the boundaries of conventional accounting remain imprecisely defined and this creates a … extended in terms of the need to make accounting itself more accountable within the public sector. ? 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All …

Studies of early Australian accounting texts and their authors have yet to be augmented by examinations of the … subsequent specialist books which were written to guide accounting practice within specific domains, such as the pastoral and … mining industries. This study examines the contents, use, and influence of an early specialist pastoral accounting text …

and gives them the opportunity to apply accounting theory. In examining topical contemporary issues the book illustrates … Studies: Financial Accounting and Disclosure enhances students; understanding of the complex financial accounting environment … that, in reality, accounting is not always black and white. The cases in this book require students to use practical …