GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS n#8211; AN ACCOUNTING LITERATURE REVIEW AND OVERVIEW

Reflecting the magnitude of n#8220;financial crisisn#8221; in 2008, some academics started examining causal relationships between accounting and the crisis. The purpose of this article is to review the current state of academic research articles related to the global financial crisis that are published in ScienceDirect, Springerlink, Emerald and SSRN databases, in order to identify the trends and researchersn#8217; contributions and to analyze the interplay between the global financial crisis and the accounting. Although there are lots of articles about the current financial crisis, the number of academic articles that examine the relationship between accounting and the crisis are still few, but the research questions are increasing, more and more researchers becoming interested in this topic.