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Attributing consequences to accountancy: Pacific insights
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2009)
Purpose – The question is addressed of how types of consequences of accounting can be identified and classified. In doing so, an analysis is conducted of consequences for Kain Nikunau (i.e. indigenous persons of Nikunau ...
Lecturing proficiency and effectiveness of New Zealand accounting and finance academics
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2015)
The manuscript comprises a literature review in progress, to examine research relevant to how accounting and finance academics can improve their proficiency and effectiveness as teachers. The notion of improving proficiency ...
Sustainability and environmental reports of a mining firm in Ghana: A pilot study
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2015)
The need for environmental reporting for stakeholder decision making cannot be over emphasized, especially in the past two decades. This is a pilot study that investigates what environmental and sustainability information ...
Responsiveness to a new course and new performance controls: Insights from inside a recently conglomerated Chinese state-owned enterprise
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2015)
Using an institutional theory lens, our study examines how variations in responsiveness to
formal organisation-wide changes bring about diversity in the functioning of the same
management control system in different units ...
A retrospective analysis of the publication of accounting research about New Zealand consequent on distant performance measurement of the academic person
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2012)
Purpose – University academics are important to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about accounting practice and accounting learning. This paper explores the consequences for the Pacific society of New Zealand ...
Management Control in a Thai-Owned Chicken Company in Thailand
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2014)
The purpose of this study is to add knowledge of the composition and exercise of
management control systems. The study focused on a Thai-owned chicken processing
company in Thailand. Thailand was chosen for this study ...
Curricular Accounting the Canterbury way
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2009)
Accounting figures variously in New Higher Education, as much accounting research shows. Neglected, however, are calculative practices that in their infancy attracted the label curricular accounting (Theodossin, 1986). ...
The genesis of calculative practices in higher education: Credit point systems
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2009)
Purpose – Accounting has been shown to figure variously in New Higher Education.
However, despite their infant precursors having been labelled curricular accounting
(Theodossin, 1986), accounting researchers have overlooked ...
Accounting education for managers: A managerial work perspective on their curriculum
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2007)
The accounting education of people in managerial roles or performing managerial work is relatively neglected in the literature compared with educating accountants. Moreover, judged from most textbooks purporting to serve ...
Financial and non-financial information transfer and communication within small and medium enterprises
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2012)
This participant-observation study explores the process of gathering and evaluating both financial and non-financial information and communication and transfer of that information within a medium-sized electrical service ...
