Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice (Cambridge Studies in Management, Series Number 24) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521390923 ISBN 13: 9780521390927

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

This book provides a socio-historical analysis of accounting. It examines how and why accounting is so important to contemporary social and economic life, and provides a critical perspective on the conditions and consequences of accounting practices.

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'... a most worthwhile text ... these chapters are clearer, better-written and more direct than the material from which they draw ... will repay time spent.' Social and Environmental Accounting

Reseña del editor:

Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice is the first major collection of critical and socio-historical analyses of accounting. It gathers together work by scholars of international renown on the social and institutional nature of accounting to address the conditions and consequences of accounting practice. Challenging conventional views that accounting is a technical practice, and that it comprises little more than bookkeeping, this collection demonstrates the importance of analysing the multiple arenas in which accounting emerges and operates. As accounting continues to gain in importance in so many spheres of social life, an understanding of the conditions and consequences of this calculative technology is vital. Its relevance extends far beyond the discipline of accounting. This book will be of considerable interest for specialists in organisational analysis, sociologists, and political scientists, as well as the general reader interested in understanding the increasing significance of accounting in contemporary society.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521390923
• ISBN 13: 9780521390927
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 335
• Herausgeber: Hopwood Anthony G., Miller Peter