Accounting and Emancipation: Some Critical Interventions

ISBN-13: 9780415220149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str.

Sonja Gallhofer; Jim Haslam

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.