Thirty years of Accounting & Finance Review - past, present, dreams for the future

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Editorial reflecting on the thirty-year development of Accounting & Finance Review, tracing its origins from the growth of postgraduate accounting and controllership programs in Brazil. It recounts the formation of MSc and Ph.D. pathways at FEAUSP, the role of ANPAD and ANPCONT, and the early lack of specialized journals and academic congress venues. It then describes how, in October 1989, the FIPECAFI-funded Caderno de Estudos was created through collaboration, establishing a foundation for academic expansion in the field.

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INTRODUCTION

The evolution of MSc and Ph.D. programs in accounting

THE LACK OF THIS REVIEW

The absence of journals and review outlets before 1989

THE REVIEW IS BORN

The 1989 creation of Caderno de Estudos

ISSN 1808-057X DOI: 10. 1590/1808-057x201990310 Editorial Thirty years of Accounting & Finance Review: past, present, dreams for the future Eliseu Martins¹,² 􀁂 [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7652-7218](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7652-7218) Professor Emeritus Email: [prof.eliseu.martins@gmail.com](prof.eliseu.martins@gmail.com) Sérgio de Iudicibus¹ 􀁂 [https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9657-7186](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9657-7186)[ ](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9657-7186)Professor Emeritus E-mail: [siudicibus@pucsp.br](siudicibus@pucsp.br) ¹ Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Departamento de Contabilidade e Atuária, São Paulo, SP, Brazil ² Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Contabilidade e Atuária, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil 1. INTRODUCTION TheMSc in Accounting of the School of Economics, Business Administration, and Accounting (Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade – FEAUSP), a pioneer in Brazil, was created and began to operate in 1970, after a major reform in the structure of the University of São Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo –USP) . José da Costa Boucinhas was the head of our department. Some years later, the course was renamed as MSc in Accounting and Controllership, atthe initiative of the then coordinator Stephen Charles Kanitz, who planned to change it, a few years later, to MSc in Controllership and Accounting. Was it a matter of status? In that case, it has worked! The Ph.D. in Accounting began in 1978 – then, there was not another MSc program in the area in the country, yet. New MSc programs only emerged in other Brazilian institutions in the 1980s, also encouraged and supported by the Department of Accounting and Actuarial Science (Departamento de Contabilidade e Atuária – EAC) of the FEA USP and the Foundation Institute for Accounting, Actuarial Science, and Financial Research (Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Contábeis, Atuariais e Financeiras – FIPECAFI)–such as that of the Pontifical Catholic University ofSão Paulo (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC-SP) and that of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV) in Rio de Janeiro (later transferred to the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro – Universidadedo Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ) . At the time, the authors of this Editorial were head of department (Sérgio de Iudicibus) and coordinator of the program (Eliseu Martins), with Antonio Peres Rodrigues Filho presiding the FIPECAFI (which had been created at his initiative, in 1974) . No one askshow a Ph.D. program was created already having Ph.D. holders? Doctors coming from where, if this 1978 Ph.D. program was the first in Brazil? To understand this, we need to know that before 1970 the Ph.D. studies were directly offered by the university unit’s congregation (the FEA, in this case) and the subjects were addressed individually and directly along with the professors; there was no ‘course’ or classrooms, but a rather lonely ‘Ph.D. thesis process;’ sometimes, only advisors looked at it. Thus, before the Ph.D. course was created, the authors of this Editorial and many other colleagues were already Ph.D. holders, educated under the old regime. Our MSc and Ph.D. program participated, despite its area is Accounting, in the creation of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Administration (Associação Nacional de PósGraduação e Pesquisa em Administração – ANPAD) . First, because it was the only course in Accounting in the country; and, second, because our coordinator was Stephen Kanitz, always innovative. With this, we managed not to feel so lonely and gained much experience. In 2006 the National Association of Graduate Programs in Accounting (ANPCONT) was founded with 13 Accounting Graduated Programs. R. Cont. Fin.– USP, São Paulo, v. 30, n. 81, p. 301-306, set./dez. 2019 301 2.

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How did the review begin according to the editorial?

In October 1989, the FIPECAFI-funded Caderno de Estudos was born from a partnership, with an intentionally low-cost production approach and contributions from the department and FIPECAFI leadership.

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