The Centre for Governance, Accountability, and Sustainability

The Accountancy group at the University of Aberdeen Business School has a long and well-established tradition in interdisciplinary research that utilises a range of philosophical, methodological, and empirical approaches to its investigations. The group produces world-class contemporary and historical research that are of importance to the accounting profession, policy makers, regulators, business etc. and those who have a desire to address deep social, economic and sustainability issues facing the world. The group further has strong relationships with professional and accounting bodies which facilitates opportunities to identify and develop research that deals with real-world problems.

The accountancy group’s research, the Centre for Governance, Accountability, and Sustainability (GAS), provides a platform of organisational support for researchers to build on and knowledge share their research outputs. The Centre has a commitment to undertaking inter and trans-disciplinary research in which expertise across disciplines will be integrated together to forge new understanding and new ways of addressing critical sustainability and global grand challenges within the context of the accounting profession and wider business and economic spheres; and in how accountancy may inform internal decision-makers on these issues.