Matthew Gill

Accountants' Truth

Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World

• Broschiertes 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: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780199603107
• ISBN-10: 0199603103
• Artikelnr.: 33088389

Autorenporträt

Matthew Gill holds a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics. He is also a prize-winning chartered accountant, and worked for four years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where his most recent role was to help companies manage financial crises. He completed this book as an interdisciplinary Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in Saint Louis, and now works in prudential policy at the Financial Services Authority in London.

Inhaltsangabe

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