Academy of Accounting Historians Section Online Sessions for All AAA Members!
For the 2024-2025 academic year, the Academy of Accounting Historians (AAH) will sponsor a series of online sessions (Brownbag webinars) to provide researchers feedback on their historical and longitudinal papers. These sessions have been done for the past five years.
The format will be:
- Friday Brownbag Sessions, one presenter, sessions each from 10 am to 11:15 am Eastern
The AAH will deliver the Friday brownbag sessions with Zoom free of charge. AAH and AAA members are invited to present papers and to be participants at all sessions. For each submitted paper, there will be two blind reviewers. Each reviewer will be a subject expert.
Upcoming Brownbags:
April 11, 2025, at 10:00 am (Eastern and Toronto/New York time)
featuring Professor Alan Sangster (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) presenting a paper, Being Proud of Accounting History.
April 18, 2025 at 10:00 am (Eastern and Toronto/New York Time)
featuring Professor John Keyser (Case Western Reserve University) presenting a paper, Private Equity and Public Accounting: New Development or Variation on a Theme
To present a paper at a session or to be a participant, please contact Gary Spraakman, former AAH president, at garys@yorku.ca.
Call for Papers
Accounting Historians Journal
Accounting Research Methods and Resources
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Accounting history is an essential field of accounting research that continues to contribute to our knowledge of accounting and its development. The first issue of the Accounting Historians Journal was published in 1974. Professor Garner wrote in that issue:
“Study and research in accounting history are open to almost everyone having an accounting bent. The eagle eyes and ears of accounting historians will find few limits to possible surprise findings and important discoveries. In other words, everyone has an opportunity to make a contribution to the filling in of unknown details. Accounting history research is somewhat similar to the search for oil, that is, information regarding accounting history is where one finds it.”
The 16th World Congress of Accounting Historians (WCAH)
The 16th World Congress of Accounting Historians (WCAH), the highest-level international academic conference in the field of accounting history was held on June 25-June 27, 2024 at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. The conference was co-organized by Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance and was a great success! Themed " Accounting in the History of Science, Technology and Human Civilization" the conference provided a high-quality international academic exchange platform for experts and scholars from all over the world to present and discuss research on all topics, methodologies, and perspectives in the field of accounting history.
It was a great honor to have Professor Guo Daoyang, an internationally renowned expert in accounting history and the author of General Accounting History of China, and Professor Massimo Sargiacomo, former President of the Academy of Accounting Historians were opening plenary speakers.
You can view a copy of the conference program HERE.
Additional details on the WCAH and pictures may be found HERE.
Accounting Historians Journal
A journal of the Academy of Accounting Historians Section of the American Accounting Association
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Accounting Historians Journal is an international journal that addresses the development of accounting thought and practice. AHJ embraces all subject matter related to accounting history, including but not limited to research that provides historical perspective on contemporary issues. It prints semi-annually in June and December, and is indexed in both Scopus and ESCI.
Click here to view the Accounting Historians Journal Editorial Board.
For additional journal data and citation analysis, see the Accounting Historians Journal Impact and Journal Report.
Editor:
William (Bill) Black
Accounting Historians Journal
University of North Georgia
P: 770.598.3522
E: whblack@ung.edu
Editorial Office: AHJ@aaahq.org
All papers accepted and published in the journal are considered for that year's Best Paper Award. Read more on the award's page here.
Quick Notes:
- The first volume was published in 1974.
- The journal is published twice a year; June and December.
- Older volumes are available online in the digital library.
Still have questions? Contact one of the editors below.
Gloria Vollmers, Editor, University of Maine, Gloria_Vollmers@umit.maine.edu
Warwick Funnell, Associate Editor, University of Kent, w.n.funnell@kent.ac.uk
David McCollum-Oldroyd, Associate Editor, Durham University, d.a.mccollum-oldroyd@durham.ac.uk
Bob Russ, Assistant Editor, Northern Kentucky University, russr1@nku.edu
OUR SECTION 2025-2026 ELECTION
Review the Slate Prior to the Election
The AAH Section Election voting will begin on Monday, April 21, 2025. Please take the time to review the slate HERE before the election opens.
The First 40 Years of the Academy of Accounting Historians
Trace the evolution of The Academy of Accounting Historians in a three part series of papers from its founding in 1973 through the 40th Anniversary in 2013. The primary purpose of this series is to provide information about The Academy of Accounting Historians, the people who have contributed to its establishment and success, and to assist in planning our future role. All three papers were published in The Accounting Historians Journal and can be viewed by clicking the button below.
Accounting Historians Journal
First volume was published in 1974. We publish twice a year. Older volumes are available online at AAA Digital Library
Overview of acceptable submissions:
- History of profession
- Biography
- History of accounting change
- Entity case studies: industries, companies, governmental or NFP entities
- Development of accounting theory
- Critical examinations of new or old research
- Does not have to be old to be a part of our history
Learn More
Accounting Historians Notebook
Submissions and any other Notebook editorial matters may be sent to: Yvette.Lazdowski@unh.edu
Volume 47, No. 2 is now available online!
View it here now!
