Businesses are complex, and, as a result, teachers face a difficult task developing students' understanding of how they work, especially in the global context. Accounting for Business Studies helps teachers focus on modern commercial issues and integrates accounting into business and management...

The papers in this special issue cover the traditional mass media of newspapers, corporate accounting media of annual reports, advertisements, the more recent forms of media for example blogs, corporate media in the form of web sites and poetry. The papers in this special issue make use of a...

The benchmark: what should GAAP look like? -- Goodwill hunting: the political economy of accountability for mergers and acquisitions -- The shrinking big N: rule-making incentives of the tightening oligopoly in auditing -- Why fair value is the rule: the changing nature of standard setters --...