Accounting Education Trends by Authors from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom

• In Event: International Accounting 2

Abstract

Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to examine the trends in accounting-education publications and the influence of journal rankings for authors from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Design/methodological approach: We included the publications in nine accounting-education journals for the 20-year period from 1993 through 2012.
Findings: Our data provide insights into the perceptions of accounting-education journals by authors from four countries. We found that, while coauthoring by the accounting authors from Australia and the United Kingdom increased slightly, coauthoring by the accounting authors from Canada and New Zealand increased significantly during the 20-year period. However, the frequency of coauthoring was only associated with the increase in AACSB-accredited institutions for the sample from Canada.
Research limitations/implications: Our data suggests a tendency by the authors from these four countries to publish their accounting-education research in journals that had been ranked as a top accounting journal and/or a journal sponsored their accounting association. Contrary to what one would have anticipated, the number of coauthor-adjusted articles decreased in a period of increasing accreditation of institutions by AACSB for New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Originality/value: This paper is the first paper to consider trends in international accounting-education publications. The data in this research can be used by accounting faculty wishing to assess which journals their colleagues publish in most frequently.

Authors

• Richard A Bernardi, Roger Williams University

• Taylor L. Delande, Property Management

• Kimberly A. Zamojcin, Consulting Firm