Accounting Today: Prof seeks science behind accounting

From AccountingToday.com, Jan. 23, 2015

Accounting may be a profession mostly involving numbers, but for Lynn Hannan, a professor of accounting at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, factors such as psychology, sociology, and economics should also be a top priority.

“I was interested in how we can improve accounting to help people make better decisions,” she told Tulane's website, focusing on the psychology behind employees and incentive systems.

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