Accounting scholarship is an academic discipline oriented towards the profession of accounting, usually taught at a business school.
Since accounting is a highly technical, standards oriented profession, both practitioners and academics may claim to be experts. Accounting directly impacts many other specialties in business and is closely linked with finance. The theoretical underpinnings of both accounting and finance are derived from economics.
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