Accounting and the role of Accountants has permeated the modern societies. For the most part, we have accepted the impartiality and objectivity of accounting and not recognized how accounting systems are embedded in a country's economic and legal framework, much of which is in turn shaped by political processes. This web of interactions results in complex economic and political questions which require accounting researchers to focus on several related trends: information economics, regulatory economics, sociology and political science. Althouugh considerable progress has been made in the...

Accounting and the role of Accountants has permeated the modern societies. For the most part, we have accepted the impartiality and objectivity of accounting and not recognized how accounting systems are embedded in a country's economic and legal framework, much of which is in turn shaped by political processes. This web of interactions results in complex economic and political questions which require accounting researchers to focus on several related trends: information economics, regulatory economics, sociology and political science. Althouugh considerable progress has been made in the...

Seit geraumer Zeit besteht in Theorie und Praxis Unzufriedenheit daruber, dass in der Kostenrechnungsliteratur der letzten dreissig Jahre Verfahren der Teilkostenrechnung dominieren. Die Praxis aber halt zum grossen Teil an Systemen der Vollkostenrechnung fest. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die These vertreten, dass fur diese sog. Theorie-Praxis-Lucke auch Mangel in der Theorie verantwortlich sind. Im einzelnen wird gezeigt, dass sich die Beurteilung von Systemen der Voll- und Teilkostenrechnung beim Ubergang von einer sicheren auf eine unsichere Welt sowie beim Ubergang von einem...