G. Hopwood / Peter Miller (eds.)

Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice

Herausgeber: Hopwood, Anthony G.; Miller, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how and why accounting is so important to contemporary social and economic life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780521469654
• ISBN-10: 0521469651
• Artikelnr.: 21199529

Inhaltsangabe

1. Accounting as social and institutional practice: an introduction Peter
Miller; 2. Early double-entry bookkeeping and the rhetoric of accounting
calculation Grahame Thompson; 3. Writing, examining, disciplining: the
genesis of accounting's modern power Keith Hoskin and Richard Macve; 4.
Governing the calculable person Peter Miller and Ted O'Leary; 5.
Accountancy and the First World War Anne Loft; 6. Accounting and labour:
integrations and disintegrations Philip Bougen; 7. The politics of economic
measurement: the rise of the 'productivity problem' in the 1940s Jim
Tomlinson; 8. Corporate control in large British companies: the
intersection of management accounting and industrial relations in postwar
Britain Peter Armstrong; 9. Value added accounting and national economic
policy Anthony Hopwood, Stuart Burchell and Colin Clubb; 10. Management by
accounting Brendan McSweeny; 11. Regulating accountancy in the UK: episodes
in a changing relationship between the state and the profession David
Cooper, Keith Robson, Tony Puxty and Hugh Wilmott; 12. The audit society
Michael Power