Research

Accounting and the Public Interest

Editor: Professor Paul Williams, North Carolina State University

Accounting and the Public Interest is an academic journal published by the Public Interest
Section of the American Accounting Association. The journal, envisioned as innovative and eclectic,
welcomes alternative theories and methodologies as well as the more traditional ones. The
common element in this diversity is the requirement that the study and its findings be linked to the
public interest by situating them within the historical, social, and political context, and ultimately
providing guidance for responsible action.

Other journals

Accounting, Auditing and Accountablity Journal

Accounting, Organisations and Society

Editor: Professor Anthony G. Hopwood, University of Oxford.

"Accounting, Organizations & Society is a major international journal concerned with all aspects of the relationship between accounting and human behaviour, organizational structures and processes, and the changing social and political environment of the enterprise. Its unique focus covers such topics as: the social role of accounting, social accounting, social audit and accounting for scarce resources; the provision of accounting information to employees and trade unions and the development of participative information systems; processes influencing accounting innovations and the social and political aspects of accounting standard setting; behavioural studies of the users of accounting information; information processing views of organizations, and the relationship between accounting and other information systems and organizational structures and processes; organizational strategies for designing accounting and information systems; human resource accounting; cognitive aspects of accounting and decision-making processes, and the behavioural aspects of budgeting, planning and investment appraisal." (source: journal website).

Advances in Public Interest Accounting

Editor: Professor Cheryl R. Lehman, Hofstra University.

"Advances in Public Interest Accounting is a research publication with two major aims. First, to provide a forum for researchers concerned with critically appraising and significantly transforming conventional accounting theory, practice, teaching and research. Second, to increase the social self-awareness of accounting practitioners, educators, and researchers, encouraging them to assume a greater responsibility for the profession's social role. We seek original manuscripts exploring all facets of this broad agenda." (source: journal website)

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Editors: Professor Tony Tinker, Baruch College, and Professor David Cooper, University of Alberta.

"Critical Perspectives on Accounting aims to provide a forum for the growing number of accounting researchers and practitioners who realize that conventional theory and practice is ill-suited to the challenges of the modern environment, and that accounting practices and corporate behavior are inextricably connected with many allocative, distributive, social, and ecological problems of our era. From such concerns, a new literature is emerging that seeks to reformulate corporate, social, and political activity, and the theoretical and practical means by which we apprehend and affect that activity." (source: journal website)

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy

Editor: Professor Lawrence A. Gordon, University of Maryland

"The Journal of Accounting and Public Policy publishes research papers focusing on the intersection between accounting and public policy. Preference is given to papers illuminating through theoretical or empirical analysis, the effects of accounting on public policy and vice-versa. Subjects treated in this journal include the interface of accounting with economics, political science, sociology, or law. The Journal includes a section entitled Accounting Letters. This section publishes short research articles that should not exceed approximately 3,000 words. The objective of this section is to facilitate the rapid dissemination of important accounting research. Accordingly, articles submitted to this section will be reviewed within fours weeks of receipt, revisions will be limited to one, and publication will occur within four months of acceptance." (source: journal website)