Guest editorial

In this regard, the UN is concerned that the COVID-19 pandemic may “increase inequality, exclusion, discrimination and unemployment in the medium and long term”, since there is evidence that vulnerable groups in society (including poor people and indigenous peoples) face the health and economic impacts of the virus disproportionately (UN, 2021). In the light of the urgency of the climate change crisis, see for example the IPCC report of 2021 (IPCC, 2021), it is important to continue this momentum towards a lower carbon economy. [...]as accounting and finance educators, we need to assess what impact the changes in the professions and the nature of work will have on how our students are educated. The authors examine this policy change in the context of the wider history of the accounting for deferred taxes in New Zealand and show how it had an immediate, material impact on company financial statements.