Accounting and Emancipation

Some Critical Interventions
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-22014-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Accounting

Accounting is a social practice: it should be evaluated in terms of its contribution to a notion of social well-being. In order to do this, this book elaborates a critique of contemporary accounting. The authors encourage those with a close interest in accounting to make the search for a more emancipatory and enabling accounting a core area of their interest. The book will stimulate debate and activity in the arenas of education, research, practice and policy-making.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gallhofer, Sonja

Haslam, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Betriebliches Rechnungswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Accounting and Emancipation: Developing and Promoting an Alignment 2. Jeremy Bentham, Accountant: A Radical Vision of an Emancipatory Modern Accounting 3. Accounting and Emancipatory Practice: The Mobilising of Accounting by Socialist Agitators of the Late Nineteenth Century 4. Is Social Accounting the Soul of Justice? Towards a Critical Appreciation of Emancipatory Intent 5. Epilogue: Accounting, Emancipation and Praxis Today

Über Autor(innen)

Sonja Gallhofer is Professor of Critical Accounting at Glasgow Caledonian University and has published numerous critical, including feminist, historical, pedagogical and cultural, analyses of accounting.
Jim Haslam is Professor of Accounting and Head of Accountancy and Finance at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He has published numerous articles contributing to the critical social analysis of accounting.