About our Research

Members of the School of Accounting & Finance pursue a wide variety of research activities. The primary research thrust comes from a research program called Accountability and Financial Reporting. Although this program is designed to concentrate the research effort of the School, not all staff members are members of the program and even those who are may also be involved in projects outside the program. The program comprises a variety of individual research projects with the common theme of providing financial information for different classes of decision makers. Projects include research into external financial reporting, management accounting, design and implementation of internal reporting systems, government efficiency audits, small business management and differential reporting, reporting of intangible items and international dimensions to financial reporting.

A new research program called Metacapitalism Research Programme has recently been established.

In addition, a number of projects, not directly related to the programs are also being pursued. These include activities related to accounting education, such as the impact of the use of computers in teaching and managing learning, multi media teaching, innovative teaching techniques and competency based standards and the accounting profession. Other projects include venture capital, Auditing and EDI, expert systems in accounting, small business management, international accounting, cultural dimensions of financial reporting and regulation, accounting in Islamic economies, accounting in developing countries.