Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions

Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions

Author: Christopher S. Chapman

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2009-08-13

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0191609374

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Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society. Indeed, some argue that its practices are fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. We can see accounting everywhere: in organizations where budgeting, investing, costing, and performance appraisal rely on accounting practices; in financial and other audits; in corporate scandals and financial reporting and regulation; in corporate governance, risk management, and accountability, and in the corresponding growth and influence of the accounting profession. Accounting, too, is an important part of the curriculum and research of business and management schools, the fastest growing sector in higher education. This growth is largely a phenomenon of the last 50 years or so. Prior to that, accounting was seen mainly as a mundane, technical, bookkeeping exercise (and some still share that naive view). The growth in accounting has demanded a corresponding engagement by scholars to examine and highlight the important behavioural, organizational, institutional, and social dimensions of accounting. Pioneering work by accounting researchers and social scientists more generally has persuasively demonstrated to a wider social science, professional, management, and policy audience how many aspects of life are indeed constituted, to an important extent, through the calculative practices of accounting. Anthony Hopwood, to whom this book is dedicated, has been a leading figure in this endeavour, which has effectively defined accounting as a distinctive field of research in the social sciences. The book brings together the work of leading international accounting academics and social scientists, and demonstrates the scope, vitality, and insights of contemporary scholarship in and on accounting and auditing.


Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions

Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions

Author: Christopher S. Chapman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-08-13

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0199546355

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Brings together the work of leading international accounting academics and social scientists. Explores a range of intellectual traditions in accounting research, and their implications for the social sciences more widely.


The Audit Society

The Audit Society

Author: Michael Power

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1999-08-19

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 019103746X

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Since the early 1980s there has been an explosion of auditing activity in the United Kingdom and North America. In addition to financial audits there are now medical audits, technology audits, value for money audits, environmental audits, quality audits, teaching audits, and many others. Why has this happened? What does it mean when a society invests so heavily in an industry of checking and when more and more individuals find themselves subject to formal scrutiny? The Audit Society argues that the rise of auditing has its roots in political demands for accountability and control. At the heart of a new administrative style internal control systems have begun to play an important public role and individual and organizational performance has been increasingly formalized and made auditable. Michael Power argues that the new demands and expectations of audits live uneasily with their operational capabilities. Not only is the manner in which they produce assurance and accountability open to question but also, by imposing their own values, audits often have unintended and dysfunctional consequences for the audited organization.


The Magic of Organization

The Magic of Organization

Author: Hugo Letiche

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1839106735

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Exploring magic as a creative necessity in contemporary business, this book clarifies the differences between magic as an organizational resource and magic as fakery, pretence and manipulation. Using this lens, it highlights insights into the relationship between anthropology and business, and organizational studies.


Accounting in Networks

Accounting in Networks

Author: Håkan Håkansson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-04-27

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1136989706

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Offers information about management accounting research, and examines the implications of network relations and the multiplicity of accounting roles therein.


Principles of Accounting Volume 1 - Financial Accounting

Principles of Accounting Volume 1 - Financial Accounting

Author: Mitchell Franklin

Publisher:

Published: 2019-04-11

Total Pages: 1056

ISBN-13: 9781680922912

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The text and images in this book are in grayscale. A hardback color version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680922929. Principles of Accounting is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Each chapter opens with a relatable real-life scenario for today's college student. Thoughtfully designed examples are presented throughout each chapter, allowing students to build on emerging accounting knowledge. Concepts are further reinforced through applicable connections to more detailed business processes. Students are immersed in the "why" as well as the "how" aspects of accounting in order to reinforce concepts and promote comprehension over rote memorization.


Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-for-Profit Organizations

Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-for-Profit Organizations

Author: Malvern J. Gross

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-05-03

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0470457066

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"This Seventh Edition is filled with authoritative advice on the financial reporting, accounting, and control situations unique to not-for-profit organizations. It contains discussions of the accounting and reporting guidelines for different types of organizations, complete guidance on tax and compliance reporting requirements, illustrated explanations of various types of acceptable financial statements, and much more!"--Publisher's Website.


The Gallery of Memory

The Gallery of Memory

Author: Lina Bolzoni

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780802043306

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This book takes as its starting point a striking paradox: that the antique tradition of the art of memory -- created by an oral culture -- reached its moment of greatest diffusion during an age that saw the birth of the printed book.


Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice

Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice

Author: Anthony G. Hopwood

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-10-06

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780521469654

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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.