Last year, we presented the book “Accountability 2008: papers from master theses”. The book contained eleven papers. Each paper was based on a thesis in the field of Accounting, Auditing and Control, on which these students received a Master’s degree in Economics & Business from the Erasmus School of Economics in 2008. We intended this book to be the beginning of an annual book series. The fact that you are now reading the preface of a second volume shows that this intention seems to become reality. In fact, we are confident that these two volumes are really the beginning of a series of books with papers of master theses in accounting. We have at least three reasons to be this confident. First, we believe that the two purposes of starting this book series will remain as important in the future as they are now. These two purposes are first, to provide a wider audience for theses that deserve that, and second, to offer some help to current and future master students in the streams of Accounting & Finance or Accounting, Auditing, and Control in writing their theses by presenting “good practices” from earlier theses. Second, as last year, the students who were invited to submit a paper for this year’s edition, without any exception, were all very enthusiastic to contribute to this book. Even though they had already finished their master theses and received their master’s degree, they were still willing to put in additional effort to turn their thesis into a paper that should not exceed 7.000 words. The fact that (almost) all contributors succeeded to not only do that but also before the deadline, shows that this book is seen as a good opportunity for students to disseminate the results of their master theses to a wider audience. Third, despite the economic crisis, we found some sponsors for this book, which is promising for the future