Warwick Funnell, Michele Chwastiak

Accounting at War (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Military Finance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Accounting at War emphasizes the significant power that financial and accounting controls gave to political elites and the impact of these controls on military performance. Accounting at War examines the effects of these controls in wars such as the Crimean, South African and Vietnam wars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317508472
• Artikelnr.: 42539335

Autorenporträt

• Professor Warwick Funnell is Professor of Accounting and Public Sector Accountability and Head of Accounting and Finance Group at Kent Business School, UK



• Michele Chwastiak is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico, USA

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures Foreword Preface Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. Pathological Responses to Accounting Controls in the Crimean
War. Chapter 3. Accounting for Military Failure in the South African War.
Chapter 4. Military Accounting and the Business of War. Chapter 5. Taming
the Untamable: Planning, Programing and Budgeting and the Normalization of
War. Chapter 6. Rationality, Performance Measures and Representations of
Reality in the Vietnam War. Chapter 7. The Holocaust, Accounting and the
Denial of Humanity. Chapter 8. Rendering Death and Destruction Visible:
Counting the Costs of War. Chapter 9. Commodifying State Crime: Accounting
for "Extraordinary Rendition" References Index