Truth in Accounting
Truth in Accounting

Author: Kenneth MacNeal

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1512804045

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Accounting for Capitalism
Accounting for Capitalism

Author: Michael Zakim

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 022654589X

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The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capitalism, Michael Zakim has written their story, a social history of capital that seeks to explain how the “bottom line” became a synonym for truth in an age shorn of absolutes, grafted onto our very sense of reason and trust. This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The personal trajectory of these young men from farm to metropolis, homestead to boarding house, and, most significantly, from growing things to selling them exemplified the enormous social effort required to domesticate the profit motive and turn it into the practical foundation of civic life. As Zakim reveals in his highly original study, there was nothing natural or preordained about the stunning ascendance of this capitalism and its radical transformation of the relationship between “Man and Mammon.”

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

Author: Michael Chatfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-05

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13: 1134675453

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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.

Accounting Standards: True or False?
Accounting Standards: True or False?

Author: R.A. Rayman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1134183585

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Topical critique of the failure of accounting to prevent corporate financial standards Accessibly written and clearly presented arguments with a foreword by an eminent figure in accounting standards Proposes an alternative system for the improvement of corporate governance

Accounting Standards
Accounting Standards

Author: R. A. Rayman

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780415377805

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Anthony Rayman explains the failure of the conventional system of accounting and proposes an alternative system to promote the improvement of corporate governance in the market economy.

The Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History
The Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History

Author: Michele Bigoni

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 135167501X

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The Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History provides compelling evidence of how accounting, when conceived of as a technology rather than simply as a tool to increase efficiency, can work as a means to sustain power relations in different sites, such as the Church, the State or the factory. This book, drawing upon the growing body of work which focuses on Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, demonstrates how accounting practices were effective in the subjugation of single individuals or entire populations, whether Roman Catholic priests, State functionaries, inhabitants of conquered lands or workers. The effectiveness of accounting as a tool of power is linked to its neutral and technical appearance, which makes it difficult for those oppressed and controlled by its practices to oppose it. Its adaptability to different organizational contexts, as documented in The Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History, makes it a valuable tool for sustaining existing power relations and reproducing inequalities and exploitation. The Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History is vital reading for academics and researchers in the fields of accounting, accounting history, political management and sociology and European history.

Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism
Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism

Author: Jacques Richard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 100048405X

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Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the underpinning systems of accounting. This book draws attention to this lacuna, focusing specifically on the concept of capital: a major concept that dominates all teaching and practice in both economics and management. It is argued that while for the practitioners of capitalism – in accounting and business – the capital in their accounts is a debt to be repaid (or a thing to be kept), for economists, it has been considered a means (or even a resource or an asset) intended to be worn out. This category error has led to economists failing to comprehend the true nature of capitalism. On this basis, this book proposes a new definition of capitalism that brings about considerable changes in the attitude to be had towards this economic system, in particular, the means to bring about its replacement. This book will be of significant interest to readers of political economy, history of economic thought, critical accounting and heterodox economics.

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: 456

ISBN-13: 1317282671

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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.