1st Edition

Accounting at War The Politics of Military Finance

By Warwick Funnell, Michele Chwastiak Copyright 2015
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Accounting is frequently portrayed as a value free mechanism for allocating resources and ensuring they are employed in the most efficient manner. Contrary to this popular opinion, the research presented in Accounting at War demonstrates that accounting for military forces is primarily a political practice. Throughout history, military force has been so pervasive that no community of any degree... Read more

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

Biography

  • 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