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Using the media to hold accountants to account: some observations

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to broaden discussions about the role of the public sphere in broadening social choices, with particular focus on accountancy magazines and national press in particular. Design/methodology/approach - In replying to the commentary appearing in this edition, the paper shifts the debate to a political economy of media. In action research traditions, it also shows how academic interventions can lead to unexpected outcomes that can enrich research, teaching and social choice debates. Findings - Public debates can be galvanised through academic interventions. Practical implications - The paper suggests possible strategies for fermenting public debates and engaging with the institutions of accountancy. Social implications - Through engagement social choices can be broadened. Originality/value - The paper is based on personal interventions and this offers first‐hand account of some of the public interventions and how these led to new alliances and arrangements to problematise conventional views about accounting and accounting firms.

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  • Prem Sikka, 2010. "Using the media to hold accountants to account: some observations," Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 7(3), pages 270-280, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:qrampp:v:7:y:2010:i:3:p:270-280
    DOI: 10.1108/11766091011072756
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    1. Prem Sikka, 1992. "Audit policy making in the UK," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 1(2), pages 349-392.
    2. Mark P. Hampton & Jason P. Abbott (ed.), 1999. "Offshore Finance Centres and Tax Havens," Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-1-349-14752-6.
    3. S. Lawrence & M. Low & U. Sharma, 2010. "Prem Sikka and the media: using the media to hold accountants to account," Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 7(3), pages 249-269, August.
    4. Christensen, J. & Hampton, M.P., 1998. "The Capture of the State in Jersey's Offshore Finance Centre," Papers 119, Portsmouth University - Department of Economics.
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