The impact of regulations on financial accounting research*
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Contemporary Accounting Research
- Vol. 5 (2) , 494-500
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1911-3846.1989.tb00718.x
Abstract
This paper briefly traces the evolution of the impact that activities of accounting regulatory bodies have had on financial accounting research during the last two decades. It analyzes the continuing erosion of the link between accounting research and regulations and the adverse effect of that erosion on empirical studies. Regulators, authors and editors of scholarly accounting journals may share responsibility for this trend. Some suggestions are offered on how to reverse this trend and how to better link empirical and analytical studies to some of the concerns which motivated earlier studies. Policy makers may then be provided with evidence to support their regulatory activities.Résumé. L'auteur retrace brièvement l'évolution des répercussions qu'ont eues les activités des organismes de réglementation de la comptabilité sur la recherche en comptabilité financière depuis deux décennies. Il analyse l'érosion progressive du lien entre la recherche et la réglementation comptable et l'incidence négative de cette érosion sur les études empiriques. Les responsables de la réglementation, les auteurs et les directeurs de revues spécialisées en comptabilité peuvent partager la responsabilité de cette tendance. L'auteur offre certaines suggestions relatives à la façon de renverser cette tendance et de mieux lier les études empiriques et analytiques à certaines des préoccupations qui ont motivé les recherches antérieures. Ainsi les responsables de la formulation de politiques disposerontils de documents sur lesquels appuyer leurs activités de réglementation.Keywords
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