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Accounting research examines how accounting is used by individuals, organizations and government as well as the consequences that these practices have. Starting from the assumption that accounting both measures and makes visible certain economic events, accounting research has studied the roles of accounting in organizations and society and the consequences that these practices have for ...
Soc. Accounting, Organizations and Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. Its editors-in-chief are Marcia Annisette ( Schulich School of Business ), Mark E. Peecher ( University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ), and Keith Robson ( HEC Paris ). The journal focuses on the relationships between accounting and both ...
Public interest accounting is a branch of academic accounting research that attempts to understand how accounting practices and the activities of the accounting profession impact the public interest. Public interest-focused accounting research sheds light on the role of accounting in perpetuating unequal social relations, while attempting to ...
Accounting research is research in the effects of economic events on the process of accounting, the effects of reported information on economic events, and the roles of accounting in organizations and society. [68] [69] It encompasses a broad range of research areas including financial accounting, management accounting, auditing and taxation. [70]
The research also traces how globalization has impacted on the organization and activities of public accounting. [8] Third, Cooper has theorized and practiced the role of the specific, public intellectual. [9] Building on the insights of Foucault and Bourdieu, Cooper showed the importance of using accounting expertise to intervene in the public ...
Social accounting (also known as social accounting and auditing, social accountability, social and environmental accounting, corporate social reporting, corporate social responsibility reporting, non-financial reporting or accounting) is the process of communicating the social and environmental effects of organizations' economic actions to particular interest groups within society and to ...
Accounting, Organizations and Society, 12(3), 207-234. Hopwood, A. G. (1983). On trying to study accounting in the contexts in which it operates. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 8(2-3), 287-305. Hopwood, A. G. (1972). An empirical study of the role of accounting data in performance evaluation. Journal of Accounting Research, 10:156-182 ...
—Robert H. Montgomery, describing ethics in accounting in 2009 Accounting ethics is primarily a field of applied ethics and is part of business ethics and human ethics, the study of moral values and judgments as they apply to accountancy. It is an example of professional ethics. Accounting was introduced by Luca Pacioli, and later expanded by government groups, professional organizations ...