1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication
Part I: The Landscape 1. The Power of Accounting Communication (Lisa Jack, Jane Davison and Russell Craig) 2. The Accounting Communication Research Landscape (Lee Parker) 3. An Historical Perspective from the Work of Chambers (Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean and John Richard Edwards) Part II: A Variety of Media: Beyond Numbers 4. The Language of Corporate Annual Reports: A Critical Discourse Analysis (Theo van Leeuwen) 5. Visual Perspectives (Jane Davison) 6. The Role of Metaphor (Joel Amernic) 7. Rhetoric and the Art of Memory (Paolo Quattrone) 8. Accounting Narratives and Impression Management (Niamh Brennan and Doris Merkl-Davies) Part III: Contemporary and Professional Issues 9. Phantasmagoria, Sustain-a-Babbling in Social and Environmental Reporting (Markus Milne) 10. Accounting Communication inside Organizations (Lisa Jack) 11. Communication Apprehension and Accounting Education (Trevor Hassall, José L. Arquero, John Joyce and José M. González) 12. Review of US Pedagogic Research and Debates on Writing in Accounting (Sue Ravenscroft and Abhi Rao) 13. Is XBRL a Killer App? (Joanne Locke) Part IV: Construction of Meaning 14. A Big Four Practitioner View (John Hitchins and Laura Taylor) 15. Argument, Audit and Principles-Based Accounting (Wally Smieliauskas) 16. A Critical Perspective (Christine Cooper)
Biography
Lisa Jack is Professor of Accounting at the University of Portsmouth Business School, UK. Her research interests encompass performance measurement, accounting in food supply chains and management control. She is the author of a book on benchmarking as well as several research papers, book chapters and CIMA reports
Jane Davison is Professor of Accounting at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her research interests include visual and narrative perspectives on accounting. She is widely published in major international journals, co-editor of several journal special issues, co-founder of the inVisio research network and associate director of the Bangor Centre for Impression Management in Accounting
Russell Craig is Professor of Accounting at Victoria University, Australia. His main research interests include financial reporting, international accounting and the accountability discourse of executives. He is the co-author of CEO-Speak: The Language of Corporate Leadership (2006, McGill Queens University Press) and over 150 research papers, research monographs and book chapters
"An excellent review of a multitude of research methods and practice relevant to accounting communication" - Richard Slack, Durham University: Accounting & Business Research, 2014
"This book makes a valuable contribution to the field and it was a joy reading it." - Muhammad Nurul Houqe Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
