Overview
The Accounting Research Group develops high quality research in a set of areas related to financial accounting, management accounting and control, taxation and auditing. This group is composed by researchers that actively participate in the main accounting conferences recognised internationally and publish the output of their work in several international top journals.
Facts and Numbers
Main Areas of Research
International accounting
IFRS related issues
Auditing and fraud
Non-financial reporting
Public sector accounting
Taxation
Management accounting and control systems
Main Achievements
The group has been publishing several papers in high-quality accounting journals (3, 4 and 4* in the ABS ranking).
The group has members who are in the Editorial Board of ABS accounting journals.
Some of the group members organised the XVIII Encuentro International da Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas (AECA), that took place at ISCTE in 2018.
The international Accounting standards Board (IASB) has taken into account the academic results of studies conducted by some group members, namely in the Post-implementation Review of IFRS 10, IFRS 11 and IFRS 12 (2020/2021) and in the Post-implementation Review of IFRS 3 Business Combination (2015).