Mahmoud Ezzamel

Accounting and Order (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the notion of order and argues that accounting is an important part of the ensemble of technologies that construct and underpins order in societies. The book identifies several key roles played by accounting in this context, ranging from cosmology through worldly activities to the preservation of the cult of the dead.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136338304
• Artikelnr.: 38451226

Autorenporträt

Mahmoud Ezzamel, BCom., MCom., Ph.D., is Professor at Cardiff University, UK, and IE Business School, Spain. He has published widely in major international journals on various topics including the interface between accounting and social theory, accounting history, accounting regulation, and corporate governance. He has also published eleven books in the areas of management accounting, accounting regulation, and corporate governance.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Egypt, Order and Scribes 1. Prologue 2. Ancient Egypt: A Brief
History Part 2: Accounting, Order, and Gods 3. Accounting and Order 4.
Creation, Order and Divine Accounting 5. Pleasing the Gods: Order and
Accounting for Offerings Part 3: Providing For the State 6. Ordering the
Taxation Cycle 7. Ordering Transportation: Accounting for the Fleet 8.
Accounting and Redistribution: The Palace and Mortuary Cult 9. Accounting
and Ordering the Activities of the Funerary Temples 10. Accounting for
Mining Expeditions 11. Accounting and the Ordering of Work Organization 21.
Accounting for the Bakeries Part 4: Ordering the Private Domain 13.
Ordering Private Estates and the Household 14. Ordering Lives: the Roles of
Accounting and Money in Organizing Communities Part 5: Epilogue 15.
Epilogue. Bibliography. Index