The Routledge Handbook of Accounting Ethics
The Routledge Handbook of Accounting Ethics

Author: Eileen Z. Taylor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-29

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 0429954255

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The perspective of this book is to present "ethics" as a conversation about how we decide what is good or bad, right or wrong. It is a collection of conversations employed by educators to assist accounting students in developing their understanding of accounting's ethical aspects and to help them develop into critical thinkers who consider the ethical complexities of the function of accounting in human society. Because we are social beings, ethics is a central human concern, since it involves determining the ethicality of human actions and their effect on other individuals, as well as determining the collective societal acceptance or rejection of an action. Thus, the book’s primary goal is to call attention to the intersectionality of accounting and ethics and to encourage students and researchers to consider the ethical implications of accounting decisions. The book contains a diversity of perspectives within which discussions of accountants' and accounting's ethical responsibilities may occur. The contributing authors were deliberately chosen for their diverse perspectives on whence moral guidance for accounting may come. Each chapter stands on its own and represents the thinking of its authors. The book is not a primer on correct behavior for accountants but a place where educators may spur the conversation along.

William A. Paton
William A. Paton

Author: Kelly L. Williams

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1787564088

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This groundbreaking study explores major influences on Paton’s thoughts on accounting and shows how Paton was an active participant in the professional accounting organizations of his day.

Accounting History from the Renaissance to the Present
Accounting History from the Renaissance to the Present

Author: T. A. Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-23

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1317945352

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First published in 1996. This book summarises the Seminar held in Edinburgh in 1994 in the five hundredth year since the publication of Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita. Its purpose is simple but relevant to every accountant. It revisits some fundamentals that lay behind Pacioli's decision to write his Summa, and examines whether the accounting framework in which we work today has overlooked basic issues because of its continued focus on development of the existing financial accounting model. It analyses Pacioli's legacy from several different perspectives, deliberately choosing to do so in ways that addressed considerations that his work reflected, examining the nature and characteristics of the bridge between academic analysis and insight on the one hand and practical application on the other. It also looks at the dominant influences in the evolution of accountancy for managing stewardship and for reporting of that stewardship. By doing so, it attempts to identify influences that had been less pressing and so had been ignored or overlooked, and also considers how changing technology has affected the way we manage the accountancy process.

The History of Accounting (RLE Accounting)
The History of Accounting (RLE Accounting)

Author: Michael Chatfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-05

Total Pages: 1206

ISBN-13: 1134675526

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Global in scope, accounting has had its share of great thinkers and practitioners, from Luca Pacioloi, the father of accounting, to R. J. Chambers, W. W. Cooper, Yuji Ijiri, Stephen A. Zeff and other figures. This encyclopedia presents more than 400 entries that focus on such subjects as publications in the field, institutional bodies, accounting and economic concepts, accounting issues, authors in accounting, records, leaders in the profession, accounting in various countries, financial court cases, accounting exams and historical researchers.

Memorial Articles for 20th Century American Accounting Leaders
Memorial Articles for 20th Century American Accounting Leaders

Author: Stephen A. Zeff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1317282663

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This collection of memorial articles and selected obituaries highlights the careers and contributions to accounting practice, the accounting profession, and the accounting literature of leading American figures in the 20th century. The memorial articles do much more than recite their subject’s career. More importantly, they discuss and assess their subject’s role in influencing the course of accounting practice and the profession as well as the evolution of their influential writings, revealing the names of the accounting leaders and leading thinkers of the past century. Memorial Articles for 20th Century American Accounting Leaders is useful in providing students and young researchers with a rich source of intelligence on the leaders who have established norms of practice, advanced the profession, and set the terms of debate in the literature – leaders who are cited and even quoted but who are known mostly as names without a full-bodied treatment of their backgrounds and broader roles in shaping the accounting literature.

Accounting Theory
Accounting Theory

Author: Harry I. Wolk

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2016-06-04

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 1483375048

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This updated Ninth Edition of Accounting Theory: Conceptual Issues in a Political and Economic Environment continues to be one of the most relevant and comprehensive texts on accounting theory. Authors Harry I. Wolk, James L. Dodd, John J. Rozycki provide a critical overview of accounting as a whole as well as touch on the financial issues in economic and political contexts, providing readers with an understanding of how current United States accounting standards were derived and where we might be headed in the future. Readers will find learning tools such as questions, cases, problems and writing assignments to solidify their understanding of accounting theory and gain new insights into this evolving field.

Twentieth Century Accounting Thinkers (RLE Accounting)
Twentieth Century Accounting Thinkers (RLE Accounting)

Author: J. R. Edwards

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-05

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1134706952

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When originally published in 1994 this volume was the first international review of accounting theory to focus on the contributions of its leading thinkers. Very few attempts had been made, in the accounting literature, to assess the contribution of the theorists who have had such an important influence on the direction of research and practice. Written by experts the studies in this volume provide a unique guide to the development of accounting theory and practice in regions as diverse as the USA, Japan and Europe.