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Accounting

Research in the Accounting group spans the major interests of accounting, management accounting, and financial reporting.

Members of the group are involved in the Research Boards and Education Faculties of the ESRC and leading professional institutes.

Research interests in management accounting cluster around five themes:

• Management by accounting
• Performance management
• Costing systems
• Financial modelling
• Accounting profession and accounting education.

Financial reporting research in the group has a strong public policy dimension, focusing on auditing and the regulation of corporate reporting and taxation, from contemporary, historical and international perspectives. Research topics include:

• Audit sampling
• The conceptual framework of financial reporting
• The history of accounting from feudalism to financial reporting in 19th-century Britain
• The identification and measurement of marketing assets
• Short-termism
• Creative accounting and financial services markets
• Comparative international accounting.