Technology and Accounting

  • I always struggled with my plans for this part of the website. It feels important to have the blog but, as a self publishing platform it felt “messy”. I have always wanted a place designed for reading articles of literary pursuits whilst having a less formal area for all of the other adventures that occupy

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  • This is a brief thought (maybe, I say that a lot an then write an essay) that quite regularly passes in and out of my mind. When we talk about Artificial Intelligence, how intelligent are we actually talking? Now, as a disclaimer, I am not referring to the highly advanced, technical wizardry type AI’s that

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  • Over the last 7(ish) years, I have both researched and observed our growing relationship with AI. Now, while I have not extended the particular observations I am about to discuss in any official or robust research capacity (hence it is in my unpublished ponderings), I have become increasingly aware that that a big problem with

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  • This week while revisiting some mid-20th century papers I was reminded of one paper that prompted much of the direction for my thesis, J.C.R. Licklider’s 1960 ‘Man-Computer Symbiosis’. (let us ignore the inherit sexism in the term for now). While I have adopted this paper into my theoretical framework, it is not symbiotic theory alone

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  • On re-reading Wootton and Kemmerer’s (2007) paper this week, I am once more drawn to the exploration of gender in accounting, and the question of where humans and technology fit in the profession. Wootton and Kemmerer (2007) provide a fascinating analysis of the introduction and adoption of ‘Mechanical Accounting’ in the US during the industrial

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