Accounting

The Accountancy Discipline at the University of Aberdeen carries out cutting-edge interdisciplinary accounting research that displays global excellence in its research outputs. The Discipline has strengths in key five areas:

• Sustainability Accounting, Accountability and Transparency
• Accounting History 
• Financial Reporting 
• Public Sector Accounting
• Accounting Education

The discipline, at present, has two leading research projects on modern slavery-related corporate transparency and accountability, funded by AHRC and GCRF-Scottish Funding Council. Accounting academics have published research in leading journals including; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; Accounting, Organisation and Society; Accounting Review; British Journal of Management; Critical Perspective of Accounting; Journal of Business Ethics; The British Accounting Review. The accounting researchers also have strong links with the Finance, Economics and Management departments, using cross-disciplinary theories and methodologies to address relevant issues in the sustainability accounting and financial reporting areas.

The Discipline’s core research culture is enriched by its inclusive community of PhD students, early career researchers and mentoring academics, a seminar series hosting leading local and international academics, organising academic conferences on accounting, society and the environment and organising engagement & impact events with practitioners and local community members. The Discipline of Accounting is home to the new research centre, the Centre for Governance, Accountability, and Sustainability. The Discipline’s reach is global: research collaborations are currently underway with international institutions and researchers based in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, and the USA to name but a few.

Expertise:

• Accounting Education
• Accounting History
• Anti-corruption and Transparency
• Climate Change and Emission Accounting and Disclosures
• Gender and Accounting
• Human Rights Accounting and Accountability
• Modern Slavery Accounting and Accounatbility
• Public Sector Accounting and Management
• Sustainability Disclosures and Transparency

Please look at the profiles of our Accounting academics for more details.

Professor M. Azizul Islam, Director of Research for Accounting

Dr Nglaa Ahmad, Postgraduate Research (PGR) Coordinator for Accounting