Accounting, Accountants and Accountability

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Accounting, Accountants and Accountability

Management accounting, bookkeeping and auditing Business strategy

Author: Norman Macintosh

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Collection: Routledge Studies in Accounting

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 3rd April 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781136011269


Introduction

In the business world, recent years have seen a growing acknowledgement of the value of intangible assets rather than physical assets. This has precipitated a crisis in the accounting industry: the accounting representations relied upon for years can no longer be taken for granted.

About the Book

Here, Norman Macintosh argues that we now need to understand accounting in a different manner. Offering several different ways of looking at accounting and accountants, he draws upon the work of eminent thinkers such as Barthes, Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Bahktin. In doing this, he develops revolutionary insights into the nature of accounting, pioneering the introduction of contemporary poststructuralist ideas into accounting theory and practice.

Who Should Read It

With a wide range of examples and case studies and now available in paperback for the first time, this revolutionary new work will be essential reading for academic and professional accountants along with all those with an interest in the future of accounting.

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