Accounting Research and Theory: The Age of Neo-empiricism

The theorising in accounting prior to 1970 was rejected as not providing sufficiently generaltheories. Informed by theories in economics and finance (and other disciplines such aspsychology) and with the aid of computers, attempts to theorise accounting took a new direction.Large data collection and...

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Main Author: Michael Gaffikin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Wollongong 2007-03-01
Series:Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal
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Online Access:http://ro.uow.edu.au/aabfj/vol1/iss1/1