For many years, the accounting profession has attempted to construct a conceptual framework that logically ties together its many ideas and procedures. As this systems view of accounting emerges it is important, argue Swanson and Miller, to make the distinction between opinion or personal interpretation and empirical evidence. In this pioneering book, they develop a coherent theory of accounting measurement based on living systems theory (LST) and thus provide a fundamental framework for classifying the various accounting ideas and procedures into those that concern measurements of...
For many years, the accounting profession has attempted to construct a conceptual framework that logically ties together its many ideas and procedu...
This analytical study examines the function of internal auditing from the viewpoint of its role within organizations and within the economics of societies and governments. Swanson and Marsh place internal auditing in the context of the scientific conceptual framework of Living Systems Theory.
This analytical study examines the function of internal auditing from the viewpoint of its role within organizations and within the economics of socie...
This ground-breaking book introduces macro accounting. Most modern money emerges out of accounting documentation of private executory debt contracts within exchange processes. Money-information markers are basically negotiable (exchangeable for value) debt instruments. Macro accounting techniques provide sufficient detail to examine the complex coupling relations and the resulting constraints among exchanges of good, services, and money-information markers of various sorts.
The book begins with a discussion of the fundamental concepts of trades, exchanges, and the accounting basis of...
This ground-breaking book introduces macro accounting. Most modern money emerges out of accounting documentation of private executory debt contract...
