Authors: Sonja Gallhofer, Jim Haslam
ISBN-13: 9780415220149, ISBN-10: 0415220149
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Accounting is a social practice: it should be evaluated in terms of its contribution to a notion of social well-being. In order to do this, this book elaborates a critique of contemporary accounting. The authors encourage those with a close interest in accounting to make the search for a more emancipatory and enabling accounting a core area of their interest. The book will stimulate debate and activity in the arenas of education, research, practice and policy-making.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
1 | Accounting and emancipation: developing and promoting an alignment | 1 |
2 | Jeremy Bentham, accountant: a radical vision of an emancipatory modern accounting | 22 |
3 | Accounting and emancipatory practice: the mobilising of accounting by socialist agitators of the late nineteenth century | 66 |
4 | Is social accounting the soul of justice? Towards a critical appreciation with emancipatory intent | 105 |
5 | Epilogue: accounting, emancipation and praxis today | 156 |
Notes | 164 | |
Bibliography | 190 | |
Index | 217 |