ABSTRACT

The 43 papers in this collection, originally published from 1972 to 1987 delve into accounting, observing and exploring its functioning. They construct a basis for interrogating it in use and indeed they attempt to account for accounting. The author seeks to understand accounting, to appreciate what it is, what it does and how it does it, examining it from without rather than from within.

part |175 pages

Accounting in its Organisational Context

chapter 2|14 pages

Evaluating the Real Benefits

part |51 pages

Accounting and the Transformation of the Public Sector

part |116 pages

Differing Rationalities and the Dynamics of Accounting Change

part |108 pages

Reflections on the Research Endeavour

part |31 pages

Selected Editorial Pontifications

chapter |4 pages

Editorial The Path Ahead

chapter |2 pages

Editorial

chapter |2 pages

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chapter |2 pages

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chapter |2 pages

Editorial

chapter |3 pages

Editorial

chapter |2 pages

Editorial