The Department of Accounting is a global leading centre for accounting and financial management research. Through our work, we seek to further the understanding of the critical role played by accounting in markets, organisations, and society.
The Department has a long-standing commitment to interdisciplinary social science research, underpinned by robust quantitative and qualitative methods. Our research is broadly organised into two subject areas: Accounting, Organisations and Institutions (AOI) area, which studies the interrelation between accounting, organisations and institutions using primarily qualitative methods and theories grounded in sociology and organisational studies; and the Economics of Accounting (EoA), which investigates accounting questions from an economics perspective using largely quantitative methods. Both research areas share important subject themes and areas of investigation, including regulation, institutional risk, organisational control, auditing, performance management, and corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
Through our work, we seek to bridge academic research and global accounting and management practice. We have strong links with national and international professional bodies and regulatory institutions, and our publications have contributed to shaping international accounting practices. Among others, recent facul