Over 20 years have now passed since the first volume of Management Accounting Research appeared in March 1990. In June 2001 we published our Editorial Report on the Jour- nal’s first decade (see Scapens and Bromwich, 2001). The purpose here is to provide our report on its second decade; comparing the research published in the first two decades, and looking forward to the third decade.
A particular feature of the past 10 years has been the increasing use of the Internet for both submissions and access to the papers published in Management Accounting Research. In 2005 we began using the Elsevier Electronic Submission (EES) system. Furthermore, over the decade the number of downloads from Science Direct of papers pub- lished in Management Accounting Research increased very rapidly. Fig. 1 shows the trend in downloads since 2001. The 231,074 downloads in 2009 compare very favourably with other major accounting journals. These downloads went to 90 different countries, which reflects the widespread inter- national recognition of the importance of papers published in Management Accounting Research. We have to thank the members of the Editorial Board and the ad hoc reviewers for all their hard work in reviewing papers and ensuring that all papers published in Management Accounting Research make important contributions to the research literature.