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Themes

Accountants and the Popular Stereotype

• Andon, P., Chong, K. M. & Roebuck, P. (2010). Personality preferences of accounting and non-accounting graduates seeking to enter the accounting profession. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 21(4), pp.253-265. — relates to accounting stereotypes.
• Baldvinsdottir, G, Burns, J, Nørreklit, H and Scapens, RW (2009), The image of accountants: from bean counters to extreme accountants, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 22, pp.858-82.
• Carnegie, G. D. and Napier, C. J. (2010), “Traditional Accountants and Business Professionals: Portraying the Accounting Profession after Enron“, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 35, No. 3, April 2010, pp.360-376.
• Miley, F.M. and Read, A.F. (2014). Advertising the accountant: A stereotype in crisis. International Journal of Critical Accounting, 6(5/6), pp.423-440.
• Parker, LD., and Warren, S. (2009), Bean Counters or Bright Young Things? Towards the Visual Study of Identity Construction Among Newly Qualified Professional Accountants, Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, Vol. 6, pp.205-223.

Cinema

• Jeacle, I. (2009). ‘Going to the movies’: Accounting and 20th century cinema, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 22, pp.677-708.
• Bialecki, M., O’Leary, S., Smith, D. (2017). Judgement devices and the evaluation of singularities: the use of performance ratings and narrative information to guide film viewer choice. Management Accounting Research, 35, 56-65.

Consumerism and the Beauty Business

• Dambrin, C., and Lambert C., (2012), Beauty or not Beauty: Making up the producer of consumer culture, Proceedings of the 7th Organization Studies Summer Workshop, 2012, May, Rhodes, Greece.
• Jeacle, I. (2006) Face facts: accounting, feminism and the business of beauty, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 17, pp.87-108.

Fashion

• Neu, D., Rahaman, A. and Everett, J. (2013). Accounting and Sweatshops: Enabling Coordination and Control in Low-Price Apparel Production Chains, Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming.
• Jeacle, I. and Carter, C. (2012) Fashioning the popular masses: Accounting as mediator between creativity and control, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 25, pp.719-751.
• Sargiacomo, M. (2008). Institutional Pressures and Isomorphic Change in a High-Fashion Company: The Case of Brioni Roman Style, 1945-1989, Accounting, Business and Financial History, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp.215-241.
• Walker, S. and Carnegie, G. (2007). Budgetary earmarking and the control of the extravagant woman in Australia, 1850–1920, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 18, pp.233–261.

Football

• Carlsson-Wall, M., Kraus, K. & Karlsson, L.M. (2017). Management control in pulsating organisations – a multiple case study of popular culture events. Management Accounting Research, 35, 20-34.
• Carlsson-Wall, M., Kraus, K. & Messner, M. (2016). Performance measurement systems and the enactment of different institutional logics: insights from a football organization. Management Accounting Research, 32, pp.45-61.
• Cooper, C., and Johnston J. (2012). Vulgate accountability : insights from the field of football. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp.602-634.
• Cooper, C., and Joyce, Y. (2013) Insolvency practice in the field of football. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 38(2). pp.108-129.
• Kandunias, C. Going Going Gone? – Evaluating the relevance of the going concern principle and the applicability of International Accounting Standards: Towards the development of a differential financial reporting framework for European football clubs (working paper).
• Kandunias, C. Assessing the Viability of Australian Football Clubs as Going Concerns from 1980 – 2010; Towards a Sustainable Reporting Model (working paper).
• Risaliti, G., and Verona, R. (2013) Players’ registration rights in the financial statements of the leading Italian clubs: A survey of Inter, Juventus, Lazio, Milan and Roma, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 26, pp.16-47.

Jokes and Humour

• Miley, F. and Read, A. (2012). Jokes in popular culture: the characterisation of the accountant, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 25, pp.703-718.

Mobile Gaming

• Lassila, E., and Moilanen, S., and Järvinen, J. (2019). Visualising a “good game”: analytics as a calculative engine in a digital environment. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.

Newspaper Media

• Gallhofer, S., and Haslam, J. (2006). Mobilising accounting in the radical media during the First World War and its aftermath: The case of Forward in the context of Red Clydeside. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 17(2-3), pp.224-252.

Pop Music

• Jacobs, K., and Evans, S. (2012). Constructing accounting in the mirror of popular music, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 25, pp.673–702.
• Miley, F.M. and Read, A.F. (2015). Talkin’ about my generation: Accounting and pirate radio, paper presented at the eighth Accounting History International Conference, Ballarat.
• Smith, D. and Jacobs, K. (2011). “Breaking up the sky”: The characterisation of accounting and accountants in popular music, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 24, pp.904–931.

Popular Literature

• Carnegie, G.D. and Napier, C.J., (2013). “Popular Accounting History: Evidence from Post-Enron Stories”, Accounting Historians Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp.1-19
• Evans, L., 2009. “A witches’ dance of numbers”: Fictional portrayals of business and accounting transactions at a time of crisis. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 22(2), pp.169-199.
• Evans, L. and Fraser, I. (2012) ‘The accountant’s social background and stereotype in popular culture: the novels of Alexander Clark Smith‘, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 25, 6, pp.964-1000.

Rugby

• Andon, P. Free, C. & Sivabalan, P. (2014). The legitimacy of new assurance providers: Making the cap fit. Accounting, Organizations & Society, 39(2), pp.75-96.
• Andon, P. & Free, C. (2014). Media coverage of accounting: the NRL salary cap crisis. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 27(1), pp.15-47.
• Andon, P. and Free, C. 2012. Auditing and crisis management: The 2010 Melbourne Storm salary cap scandal. Accounting, Organizations & Society, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp.131-154.

Television

• Bay, C. (2018). Makeover Accounting: Investigating the meaning-making practices of financial accounts. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 64, 44-54.
• Carter, C., Spence, C., and McKinlay, A. (2019). Strategic Change, Leadership and Accounting: A triptych of organisational reform. Public Administration.
• Carter, C. and McKinlay, A. (2013). Cultures of Strategy: Remaking the BBC, 1968-2003. Business History, 55(7), 1228-1246.
• Maier, E. (2017). The budget in the aesthetic: The role of calculative practice in the production of popular culture. Management Accounting Research, 35, 83-98.
• Yi Ling Ong (King’s College London, UK) is examining assurance provision in television media with particular attention to television programmes that involve interactive audience voting.

Visual Imagery and Popular Icons

• Miley, F. and Read, A. (2014) Cartoons as alternative accounting: Front-line supply in the First World War, Accounting History Review, 24, pp.161-189.
• Davison, J. (2009) Icon, iconography, iconology: visual branding, banking and the case of the bowler hat, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 22, pp.883-906.

Web and Social Media

• Jeacle, I. and Carter, C. (2011) In TripAdvisor we trust: rankings, calculative regimes and abstract systems, Accounting Organizations and Society, 36, pp.293-309.

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