Accounting & Finance

Congratulations to the 2010 Peter Brownell Best Manuscript Award winners

2010 winners

Paul A. Griffin, David H. Lont and Yuan Sun for their article
Agency problems and audit fees: further tests of the free cash flow hypothesis.

2009 winner

Warwick Anderson for his article Alternative event study methodology for detecting dividend signals in the context of joint dividend and earnings announcements.

Accounting & Finance publishes theoretical, empirical and experimental papers that significantly contribute to the disciplines of accounting and finance. Using a wide range of research methods including statistical analysis, analytical work, case studies, field research and historical analysis, articles examine significant research questions from a broad range of perspectives.

Read the top five Accounting & Finance articles accessed online:

Corporate governance, accounting and finance: A review
Philip Brown, Wendy Beekes and Peter Verhoeven

Impact of International Financial Reporting Standard adoption on key financial ratios
Anna-Maija Lantto and Petri Sahlström

Event studies: A methodology review
Charles J. Corrado

Fifty-year overview of judgment and decision-making research in accounting
Ken T. Trotman, Hwee C. Tan and Nicole Ang

A review of Australian management accounting research: 1980-2009
Robert H. Chenhall and David Smith