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1. Accounting and Business Economics

   Insights from National Traditions

   Edited by Yuri Biondi, Stefano Zambon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   The recent financial crisis has sparked debates surrounding the nature and role of accounting in informing capital markets and regulatory bodies about the financial performance and position of a firm. These debates have drawn attention to the broader implications of accounting for the economy and...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Accounting and Distributive Justice

   By John Flower

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   Accounting and Distributive Justice challenges the basic assumptions on which the current practice of financial reporting is based. It argues that the objective of financial reporting should be to contribute to the achievement of distributive justice and not the optimal allocation of resources as...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Accounting and Order

   By Mahmoud Ezzamel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   This book draws on ancient Egyptian inscriptions in order to theorize the relationship between accounting and order. It focuses especially on the performative power of accounting in producing and sustaining order in society. It explores how accounting intervened in various domains of the ancient...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. Intellectual Capital Accounting

   Practices in a Developing Country

   By Indra Abeysekera

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   This book examines and explains the intellectual capital reporting practices, with a human capital focus, of firms located in the developing nation of Sri Lanka. The study ascertains the following: first, to what extent the industry groups, based on the number of shareholders, differ in their ICR...

   Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. Solvency in Financial Accounting

   By Julie E. Margret

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   This book examines the notion of solvency at law and in accounting; and reveals inconsistent ways of determining solvency therein. Solvency is a critical commercial financial attribute. Quantifying solvency has been of concern to many across time, particularly with regard to business continuity....

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Management Accounting Research in Practice

   Lessons Learned from an Interventionist Approach

   By Petri Suomala, Jouni Lyly-Yrjänäinen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   Many scholars have claimed that management accounting research has lost its pragmatic relevancy and interventionist research has been proposed as one way to produce theories with increased practical implications. In interventionist research, active participation in the field is regarded as an asset...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
7. Law, Corporate Governance and Accounting

   European Perspectives

   Edited by Victoria Krivogorsky

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   The growing internationalization of markets, the relaxation of constraints on capital flows between countries, and the creation of different economic unions -- the European Union in particular -- initiated the flow of capital, goods, and services across national borders, growth and diffusion of...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
8. Accounting in Networks

   Edited by Hakan Hakansson, Kalle Kraus, Johnny Lind

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   Accounting in Networks is the first book that in a comprehensive way covers the emerging issue of accounting and control in horizontal relations across legally independent organizations. During the last 20 years, organisations have shown an increased interest in collaborations that cross company...

   Published March 16th 2010 by Routledge
9. Accounting for Goodwill

   By Andrea Beretta Zanoni

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   This book provides an illuminating analysis of Internally Generated Goodwill from a strategic point of view. The author launches his strategic analysis from a foundational understanding of Internally Generated Goodwill as determined largely in relationship to intangible resources and...

   Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
10. Accounting in Politics

    Devolution and Democratic Accountability

    Edited by Mahmoud Ezzamel, Noel Hyndman, Åge Johnsen, Irvine Lapsley

    Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

    This book looks at the effectiveness of the 1999 restructuring of the UK through the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and the Assemblies for Northern Ireland and Wales, considering the process of devolution and its consequences on the key mechanisms of accounting and democratic...

    Published June 10th 2008 by Routledge