Dr Darren Jubb

Along with colleagues Vicky Lambert and Lee Roberts (University of Dundee), Julie Bertz (Dublin City University) and Maresa Reill (Durham University) I am editing a special issue of Social and Environmental Accountability Journal titled ‘The Potential of Accounting and Accountability in Advancing Sustainable Cities and Communities’. The focus of the special issue is on understanding how accounting and accountability can mobilise local capacities to support a just and transformative transition towards the achievement of SDG 11, particularly one that centres community voices.

Whilst we invite researchers to submit research papers, essays and commentaries we are particularly interested in the submission of innovative research outputs including contributions from researchers outside the field of accounting.

Deadline for submission is 31 December 2026.

Any questions, please get in touch at DJubb001@dundee.ac.uk.

The full call can be viewed here: csear.co.uk/sea-journ…

My paper ''“There’s no place in a creative environment for a guy watching the figures”: a meso-level analysis of the use of budgeting by music producers' is available to read ahead-of-print.

Link to author accepted manuscript

More information on both textbooks here

Pleased to be able to share the 9th edition of Financial Accounting: An Introduction, published by Pearson. The book continues to be an introductory accounting text but in this updated edition we emphasise to students from the outset that financial accounting is embedded within a wider social context. We contextualise accounting within the broader setting of corporate reports but also demonstrate to students the important role that financial accounting plays in relation to wider societal issues, particularly sustainability and climate change.

We aim to teach students to recognise that financial accounting information impacts society and is used to evaluate the impact we have on society and the environment. This is demonstrated in particular by first-person commentary throughout the textbook from a professional fund manager in conversation with an audit manager. Our two characters journey from being initially concerned with financial accounting as it is embedded within the audited financial statements and annual report towards recognising the interconnected nature of financial accounting, corporate reporting and sustainability, with a focus on the development of international sustainability reporting standards.

Thank you to Professor Weetman for the invitation to work on this. It is a textbook that was fundamental to the beginning of my journey through accounting education many years ago so it was a privilege to make a small contribution to it. Thank you also to Richard Townrow and his team at Pearson for their support throughout this process.

Financial and Management Accounting: An Introduction has also been updated with a 9th edition.