Matthew Gill

Accountants' Truth

Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Accounting is the language of business, increasingly standardized across the world through powerful global firms: a technical skill used to reach the correct, unquestionable answer. This ethnographic study shows how decisions and judgements are actually reached, exploring the links between technical knowledge, professional judgement, and ethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780199547142
• ISBN-10: 0199547149
• Artikelnr.: 25045299

Autorenporträt

Matthew Gill holds a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics where he studied with Richard Sennett. He is currently an Andrew W Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in Saint Louis, in an interdisciplinary program which seeks to connect the humanities and the social sciences. After reading English at King's College London, he became a chartered accountant and worked for four years at PricewaterhouseCoopers' London office, where his most recent role was to help businesses in financial difficulty. His experience of these two very different worlds motivated him to write this book.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Performance and Transparency
3: Champion Chicken
4: Technocratism
5: Pragmatism
6: Professionalism
7: Ethics
8: Conclusion
Appendix: Methodology