The long road to publishing: A user-friendly exposé

The popular axiom which suggests that there are two certainties in life (namely, taxes and death) should be extended to include a third dimension for aspiring academics, that is publish or perish. The scholarly activity of academic enquiry and publishing the results of these endeavours is an inescapable pre-requisite for a successful academic career. While some academics are prolific publishers, others are not. For those who find publishing a convoluted soul-destroying experience, this paper provides an exposé of the publication process from an author's perspective. It illustrates that the refinement of academic papers for publication is a collaborative effort between authors, editors and referees. Further, it shows that, for authors, there is no substitute for focus, perseverance and hard work. Copies of the letters tabled in this discussion are intended to serve as a useful framework for those who feel alienated by the academic review process.     

A Rejoinder to the long road to publishing: A user-friendly exposé1

The focus of this paper is an investigation into the approaches to studying of Portuguese students of introductory accounting using the short version of the ASSIST instrument. In doing so, it also examined the impact upon the strategy adopted of the discipline area of students and gender. The results validate the use of the inventory with students of accounting in Portuguese higher education and add weight to the use of translated versions of this instrument elsewhere. The findings indicate that Portuguese students of introductory accounting favour a strategic approach over either a deep or a surface approach and suggest that both the individual student's discipline area and gender have an impact upon the adopted approaches to studying.     

Editorial: The long Road to Publishing: A User-friendly Exposé

This paper describes the 5 year adjustment process followed in one university when formative objective test (OT)-based assessment was introduced into a second level course in order to support the student-centred use of a proprietary CAL package. It then compares the performance and background characteristics of students on two of those years. It finds the OTs identify a different ranking among the students compared to traditional essay-based assessment, that learning styles have an impact upon performance on OTs, finds evidence to suggest that students with low levels of learning styles may be disadvantaged when faced with a need to change their approach to learning and concludes that any explanatory study of student performance should includelearning styles as an independent variable.     

Local management of schools: The road to privatisation?

The education system has become the central focus for management change in the public sector. Two recent reports—on assessment and testing and local management in schools—have tried to take the argument from generalities to practicalities, but have they succeeded?     

A Rejoinder to Commentaries on ‘Integrated Reporting: A Review of Developments and their Implications for the Accounting Curriculum’

This auditing case study focuses on a company presenting significant audit risk for an incoming audit firm. By presenting a variety of audit risks, hence audit implications, the case demonstrates the holistic approach to audit required in order to avoid an inappropriate audit opinion. The case is aimed at undergraduate students of auditing in the final year of their studies and students of the ACCA Paper 6 or equivalent. The case provides an efficient and original vehicle for instruction in auditing and can be used to complement other teaching aids.     

A remark on ‘A class of approximations of ruin probabilities’

Abstract

In this short note we shall show that a certain ‘tail’-condition used by Grandell (1977, p. 42) is unnecessary. We shall freely use notions and notations from our previous paper. We shall only consider the Poisson case.     

A new take on voice: the influence of BlackRock’s ‘Dear CEO’ letters

Review of Accounting Studies - Abstract We examine whether broad-based public engagement by institutional investors influences the behavior of portfolio firms. We investigate this question in the...