Accounting & Finance is an essential journal for academics, graduate students, practitioners, and all those interested in research in accounting and finance. Our research addresses significant questions from a broad range of perspectives and using a broad range of research methods.
Accounting & Finance publishes significant contributions to the field via theoretical, and empirical articles using quantitative and qualitative research methods; develops, tests, and advances accounting and finance theory and practice; and applies economic, organizational and other theories to accounting and finance phenomena. To learn more about our Aims and Scope, see our Overview page.
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- 2.6Journal Impact Factor
- 20%Acceptance rate
- 29 days Submission to first decision
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2023 Outstanding Reviewers
Accounting & Finance recognises Zheyao (Terry) Pan (Maquarie University), Feiyang Cheng (Beijing Jiaotong University) and Eunice Khoo (The Australian National University) for their outstanding reviewing contributions during the 2023 publication year.
2023 Manuscript Award Winners
Congratulations to the winning articles:
Peter Brownell Award
Workforce diversity and financial statement readability
by Leye Li, Louise Yi Lu, Yi Wang and Yangxin Yu
Robert Faff Finance Manuscript Award
Indigenous sustainable finance as a research field: A systematic literature review on indigenising ESG, sustainability and indigenous community practices
by Andre Poyser and Dan Daugaard
Articles
A Cross‐Country Study of the Impact of Ownership Structure on the Voluntary Audit Decisions of Private Entities in Developing Countries
- 14 July 2025
Spillover Effects of Comment Letters and Risk Management Role of ESG Performance: From the Perspective of Common Auditors
- 10 July 2025
Relative Performance Evaluation and Stock Price Informativeness: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in China
- 10 July 2025
Open Government Data and Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence From Listed Companies of China
- 7 July 2025
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) activity and firm performance: a review and consolidation
- 335-360
- 12 November 2019
Emerging new themes in environmental, social and governance investing: a systematic literature review
- 1501-1530
- 13 April 2019
Disruption of financial intermediation by FinTech: a review on crowdfunding and blockchain
- 965-992
- 25 September 2018
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