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The Accounting Court: Some Speculations On Why Not?, Gary Kleinman, Pamela Strickland, Asokan Anandarajan

Department of Accounting and Finance Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The accounting court proposed by Spacek (Account Rev 33(3):368, 1958) was a potent and controversial idea. The court would provide a venue to which auditing firms and clients could bring disputes over the application of accounting principles and over time would build a database of casework illustrating the court’s decisions on proper application and interpretation of accounting principles. In this paper, we contribute to the literature on the accounting court and on standard setting by analyzing group value orientations and motivations that should promote the likelihood of an accounting court appearing in these times. We base our analysis in value …