Dear QRCA Community,
We would like to announce two projects that bring essential reflections on the accounting area. First, the book “Breaking Barriers: (counter) accounts during the pandemic - Letters to future generations”. Secondly, the movement “Opening Accounting: A Manifesto”.
The book “Breaking Barriers” was conceived by accounting academics from three continents and offered a permanent record of the individual and collective experiences of the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. This multilingual book provides a close look at social isolation (or quarantine) and its repercussions through various multimedia and artistic presentations. It offers a unique opportunity to look back at this past (still recent for us) and see how accounting was carried out during this period of exception.
The collection consists of 63 contributions by 84 authors, ranging from academics in accounting and social sciences to business professionals, spread across 17 countries around the globe. Not limited to written records, the submissions came in the form of articles, essays, visual arts, multimedia presentations and prose in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
The book is available for free in digital format. “Breaking Barriers” is published under the Creative Commons license through Scholarship@Western.
The collection is available free of charge via the following link: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/breaking-boundaries/
The “Opening Accounting” project advocates a more diverse accounting beyond the narrow focus on capital markets. Its academic professionals adopt a more progressive mindset. The manifesto was published in the journal Accounting Forum. The authors have developed a video highlighting some of the manifesto's points.
To access the written text, go to
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01559982.2021.1952685
To access the video, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXzc_9TTv_I
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