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APIRA Conference, August 1998 in Osaka, Japan ‐ A Journey to Osaka: Postcard reflections on the APIRA Conference 1998
What follows is a series of reports by leading scholars on the very successful Second Asian Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA) Conference held at the Osaka…
Economics and accounting: A comparison between philosophical backgrounds of the two disciplines in view of complexity theory
Y. ShiozawaCompares the philosophical backgrounds of the disciplines of economics and accounting in view of complexity theory. The relationship which has existed between the two is examined…
The Hegelian logic of critical research: Understanding Professor Yoshinori Shiozawa
Tony TinkerThe vast historical, cultural, linguistic, and geographical divides between East and West makes meaningful communication especially difficult. But these differences need not lead…
Seeing the wood for the trees: Taking the pulse of social and environmental accounting
Jan Bebbington, Rob Gray, David OwenSocial and environmental issues have become a central part of the academic accounting subject field. Examines the range of papers in this area at the APIRA conference. Indicates…
The state of public sector accounting research: The APIRA conference and some personal reflections
Jane BroadbentLooks at the papers presented at the APIRA Conference in the public sector accounting area. There were some international comparative studies. The conference highlighted the need…
Postcard from Japan: a management accounting view
Trevor HopperThe papers presented at the APIRA conference 1998, on management accounting change are discussed – Japanese cost management; management control system design; ethnographic case…
Interactions between Japanese and international accounting academics: The Osaka experience
Katsuhiko KokubuExplores four themes at the 1998 APIRA conference – critical perspectives of accounting, organizational and institutional perspectives, public sector accounting in Japan and…
Critical accounting: nature, progress and prognosis
Richard LaughlinDefines critical accounting in the context of the 1998 APIRA conference. Discusses papers presented at the conference which extend the debate in this area – theory and…
APIRA 98 in Osaka: reflections through accounting history
Hiroshi OkanoExplores the papers presented at the APIRA 1998 conference which explored accounting history.
The big agenda: A schematic structure for accounting knowledge?
Cyril TomkinsConsiders the implications of the APIRA 1998 conference for accounting research. Research of all kinds should lead eventually to better practice and be useful. The data bank of…
Accounting in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
R.H. Parker, Michael MeehanThe English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340‐1400) had a practical knowledge of contemporary accounting and made good use of it in The Canterbury Tales, both in his descriptions of…
Studies of accounting and commerce in Chaucer’s Shipman’s Tale A review article
Dale Buckmaster, Elizabeth BuckmasterChaucer’s Shipman’s Tale is a satire of late medieval mercantile culture, and it is replete with commercial and accounting language. Literary critics have examined some of the…
Critics’ use of satire against the auditing profession: a short historical note
Roy A. ChandlerAt a time when the auditing profession faces mounting criticism in the wake of corporate and professional scandals, it is not unusual to read caustic commentary in the press. This…
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- Prof James Guthrie
- Prof Lee Parker