Discusses academic tenure and getting the most out of a university post. Short philosophical discussion of the pluses and minuses of academic life.

An environmental cost accounting system is a flow‐ and decision‐oriented extension of traditional cost accounting systems. It is based on cause‐and‐effect analysis which helps to assign the costs of environmental impacts correctly to their perpetrators. This article attempts to...

The fiasco of the 2000 US presidential election and the uproar that ensued with the millions of dollars in legal costs for both sides point to serious problems in the election process. No reputable company would tolerate such mishaps or could hope to survive such turmoil. Governments, however,...

The one area in accounting that shows the sign of volatility, unsettlement, and continuous change is accounting information systems. While textbooks have been revised and updated in line with the change in technology, the auxiliary teaching materials do not seem to have kept pace. Professors...

Humanity is facing some serious and troubling questions that need to be addressed and reflected on by concerned politicians, thinkers, and general public alike most urgently if we are to survive as a species. Terrorism is on the rise in an unprecedented fashion. Unimaginable crimes have been...

In this age of global terrorism, religious scandals, unbridled capitalism, corporate and accounting scandals, greed, wars, and selfishness, the one‐year adventure of a bull‐headed, uncompromising, honest, fearless, conscientious, hardworking, compassionate, and no‐nonsense American by the...

Recent corporate scandals, fraud, and misuse of resources involving top executives and multi‐billion dollar companies such as Sunbeam, Tyco, Medco, Enron, Worldcom, the NYSE and others – not to mention accounting giant, Arthur Andersen, threaten the viability and continued success of the US...

Humanity is maturing slowly and is soaked in blood, passing through his age of childhood and adolescence. He is now going through the last stages of his adolescence – producing, distributing, and trying to manage weapons of mass destruction; grabbing all he can for his selfish interests while...

Purpose This paper aims to discuss one of the most critical issues of our time, impediments to global ethics, and seeks to explore the question more intensely for a better outcome. Design/methodology/approach The Robert J. Rutland Center for Ethics at Clemson University was the venue for an...

Looks at the possible link between creativity, imagination, God and accounting. Questions whether there is a link. Asks students to submit their thoughts on spirituality and God. Provides an example to show that a link between imagination and business does exist.