Accounting Forum
Background
Launched in mid 1975s, Accounting Forum is a refereed business journal
published by the School of Commerce, University
of South Australia. With a considerable time frame from establishment,
the journal has gained recognition at both national and international
level.
Position
Accounting Forum is positioned to be a quality journal precipitating a greater understanding of the ways in which business works in the global environment. In addition, it provides a locale for intellectual exchange of academic research in business fields, especially in the accounting profession.
Key Journal Audiences
- Academics and business researchers
- Educationalists
- Accounting practitioners
- Contents
Issued quarterly, the Accounting Forum has a multi-dimensional content which covers current issues in accounting, business finance, and related fields.
The main areas of interest are:
- Accounting Theory
- Auditing
- Financial Accounting
- Finance and Accounting Education
- Management Accounting
- Small Business
- Social and Environment Accounting
- Taxation
Special issues are published once or twice a year, featuring unique areas of business. These special issues are edited in conjunction with the general Editors.
Editorial Board and Background
Accounting Forum has two Joint Editors: Prof Glen Lehman and Prof Tony Tinker and an International Editorial Advisory Board which comprises of a number of internationally recognised accounting academics.
A guide for contributors can be found
here.
What's New?
- Call for Papers - Accounting for Health Care: Reform and Outcomes
- Call for Papers - Financial Reporting and Business Communication
- Conference Announcement - Tenth Annual Conference at Cardiff Business School
- Call for Papers - Financial Accounting: Past, present and future
Site Objectives
- To provide a topical and relevant analysis of issues of controversy.
- Provide insights of journal content by exhibiting abstracts of articles online.
- To present and disseminate accounting issues to both the accounting and general international business communities.
- Attract quality scholastic papers from from both emerging and established researchers.
For more information, please contact:
Accounting Forum
University of South Australia
School of Accounting & Information Systems - City West
North Terrace Adelaide 5000
Telephone: +61 8 8302 0293
FAX: +61 8 8302 0102
E-mail:
Glen.Lehman@unisa.edu.au
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About the Award
[Extract
from Emerald Management Review]
The Golden Page Awards are presented annually at a prestigious award ceremony to those few, outstanding management periodicals that consistently deliver excellent articles.
Awards are made for: Best Research Implications; Practical Usability of Research (new for 2002); Managerial Application (new for 2002); Most Original Content; General Readability; and Readability of Research (new for 2002) across all major management disciplines. To be eligible for a Golden Page Award, a title must first be selected to be included within the Accredited Journal Coverage List by the Accreditation Board; every published article is then reviewed by our specialist reviewers and is awarded one, two or three stars for each category; at the end of each year, scores are aggregated and published in the Management Journal Content Guide; the top journal in each category/section receives the prestigious Golden Page Award.