Aims and Scope:

The Journal of Accounting Advances (JAA) of Shiraz University is an Open Access journal that publishes original research that promises to advance our understanding of accounting over a diverse range of topics and research methods. The Journal welcomes research of significance across a wide range of basic and applied research methods including analytical, archival, experimental, survey, and case study. Also, the Journal welcomes papers from researchers in all countries, with the hope that this will advance the academic standards of the journal and provide a channel of communication between Iranian scholars and their colleagues in other parts of the world. Research published in (JAA) demonstrates original demanding analysis of issues of importance in the areas of financial and managerial accounting, taxation, auditing, government and nonprofit accounting, social and environmental accounting, accounting information systems, forensics and public policy.

Articles may range from purely empirical to purely theoretical, from practice-based applications to speculation on the development of new techniques and frameworks. Empirical articles must present sound research designs and well-explained execution. Theoretical arguments must present reasonable assumptions and logical development of ideas. All articles should include well-defined problems, concise presentations, and succinct conclusions that follow logically from the data.