ACCOUNTANCY BUSINESS AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST (ABAPI) is published by the Associations for Accountancy & Business Affairs (AABA), a non-profit making organisation incorporated in the UK (Click here for more).

The mission of AABA is to:

(i) to advance the public interest by facilitating critical scrutiny of commercial and non-commercial organisations inter alia companies, partnerships, sole traders, public bodies, local authorities, charities, non-profit making organisations and any other form of
 commercial or non-commercial organisation;

(ii) to facilitate critical scrutiny of professional bodies, regulatory bodies, employer organisations, employee organisations, government departments and business organisations;

(iii) to campaign for such reforms as will help to secure greater openness and democracy, protect and further the rights of stakeholders and to make disclosures where necessary;

(iv) to engage in education and research to further public awareness of the workings, the social, political and the economic role of accountancy and business organisations.

ABAPI will publish interdisciplinary research papers, articles, commentaries and polemics on a wide range of issues. The indicative topics are:

• Business management practices
• Ethics
• Accountancy
• Auditing,
• Insolvency
• Globalisation
• Corporate power
• Poverty Wages
• Regulation
• Ecology
• Corporate governance
• Capital markets
• Media censorship
• Theories of the state
• Racism
• Discrimination
• Gender
• Imperialism,
• Culture
• Organisational studies
• Corporate crime
• Critical ethnography
• Oral histories
• New social movements