Aims and scope

Accounting History Review is an international forum for research into the history of accounting thought, practice, and institutions. Our primary goal is the publication of scholarly articles that investigate accounting and its implication in diverse social, cultural, and multi-faceted institutional contexts across space and time.

Accounting History Review is of interest not only to accounting historians but also specialists in other disciplinary areas of history and management in view of the pervasive and central role played by accounting in organisations. This scope is reflected in the membership of the journal’s Editorial Board and its readership.

The journal maintains its reputable position by privileging accounting’s past as a worthy subject of inquiry. Notwithstanding, the goal is not accounting history that looks inwardly to demonstrate accounting’s present-day utility, but a history that looks outwardly into contexts with which accounting interacts. The scope of the journal explicitly includes research which

reconsiders accounting’s past from differing and competing points of view;

• investigates the consequences of accounting as a calculative and quantitative technology, and the place of accounting in the broader quantitative and calculative space;
• makes use of accounting as an interpretive lens; and
• recognises the diversities of accounting including its relation to other disciplines.

Accounting History Review welcomes research into the history of accounting and historical accounts which inform and are informed by broader historiographical debates. We encourage cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multi-disciplinary studies and submissions from disciplines with which accounting interacts. Research is published from a wide array of historiographical and theoretical traditions reflecting the journal’s ecumenical stance. Special issues and review essays are designed to bring emerging research and perspectives to the attention of our readership.

Peer Review Policy

All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double-anonymized reviewing by anonymous referees.

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.