Publication Date
2005
Recommended Citation
Gaffikin, M., Accounting Research and Theory: the age of neo-empiricism, School of Accounting & Finance, University of Wollongong, Working Paper 7, 2005.
https://ro.uow.edu.au/accfinwp/48
Abstract
The theorising in accounting prior to 1970 was rejected as not providing sufficiently general theories. Informed by theories in economics and finance (and other disciplines such as psychology) and with the aid of computers, attempts to theorise accounting took a new direction. Large data collection and analysis emphasized a purportedly more systematic empirical approach to developing theory.