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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |49 pages
Getting Started: Exploring Accounting in Use
part |175 pages
Accounting in its Organisational Context
part |51 pages
Accounting and the Transformation of the Public Sector
part |75 pages
Social Accounting and the Social Significance of Accounts
part |116 pages
Differing Rationalities and the Dynamics of Accounting Change
chapter |6 pages
On trying to account for accounting Commentary on
part |108 pages
Reflections on the Research Endeavour
chapter |30 pages
The Deloitte, Haskins & Sells Accounting Lectures at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
part |31 pages
Selected Editorial Pontifications