Professor Michael Power MAR 3.43

This course is compulsory on the MRes/PhD in Accounting (AOI) (Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Track). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This is an advanced course for doctoral and postdoctoral students focusing on the institutional and organisational context of accounting practices in their broadest sense. The seminars are generally based on key readings at the interface between accounting, organisation studies, regulation and management. Discussions will be focused on the analysis of accounting and calculative practices in context drawing on a wide range of approaches. The course provides students also with training in qualitative methods in accounting research, including document analysis; interviewing techniques and transcript analysis; ethnographic methods in accounting; and theory building from data.

20 hours of seminars in the AT. 20 hours of seminars in the WT.

There will be a reading week in week 6 of both AT and WT.

There is no single text for this course and the seminars will be based on pre-distributed readings. 

Report (25%) and take-home assessment (75%).

Second year MRes/PhD students in Accounting (Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Track) are formally assessed by:

(i) A referee report of a working paper (25% weighting). This will normally be assigned in week 5 of Winter Term to be worked on during the following week (6) when there is no class meeting.

(ii) A take-home examination (75% weighting). This will cover a selection of key areas/papers studied in AC500 and AC504. It will be designed to be completed within a three-day (72 hour) period in the Spring term.

First year MRes/PhD students in Accounting (Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Track) will not normally be formally assessed but they will receive formative feedback on written work as agreed with the Course Director.  In addition, all students participating in the course are expected to present and discuss their own work in progress as well as other published works discussed in this course. Students will receive feedback on their presentations, so that they can develop and improve their presentation skills.