The Accounting Group at Kent Business School is considered an international leader on research of public sector accounting, critical accounting as well as accounting history. Their numerous papers and books are immensely influential in and beyond academia.
Researchers from the Accounting Group at Kent Business School are among the most renowned investigators on their respective fields. Our researchers have been awarded prizes, including the Best Paper Published in Accounting History Review in 2010 and the Enrique Fernandez Pena Prize. Academics within the group are members of the editorial boards of top peer-reviewed journals like Public Management & Money. They regularly work as peer-reviewers for academic journals such as the Journal of Management Control or the Mustang Journal of Accounting and Finance.
Their books are often praised as innovative and insightful, being presented in the most prestigious events – Warwick Funnell’s book ‘A History of National Audit’ was launched at the Palace of Westminster. Lawrence Ferry (Professor of Accounting at Durham University) wrote:
“[Dewar and Funnell] have weaved an interesting account of the UK’s long history of trying to hold officials to account for spending public money. Its publication is also very timely: the combined factors of austerity, localism, devolution and Brexit mean that we need better ways of ensuring financial sustainability and assuring value for money of our local public services. Overall, Dewar and Funnell do a nice job of outlining the move from medieval beginnings to Victorian reform and a modern state, which is followed by the impact of the world wars and post-war strengths and challenges, and bring us to the more contemporary period of New Public Management.”