Communication, corporate annual reports and perception engineering / guest editor, John K. Courtis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Courtis, John K.

Series:

Accounting, auditing & accountability journal ; v.15, no. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business communication.

Corporation reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Emerging sensitivity of accountants to the role of communication and perception engineering Communication is an important component of how accountants spend their time. In addition to the involvement of accountants with traditional accounting, they also spend considerable time in meetings with clients and colleagues, in writing reports and letters, in interacting on the phone and by e-mails, in reading myriad documents and in supervising others.

Contents:

Contents

Editorial advisory board

Abstracts and keywords

Preface

Economic man and disciplinary boundaries

Corporate annual reports: research perspectives used

The information gap in annual reports

Developments in content analysis

Measurement distortion of graphs in corporate reports

Colour graphics and task complexity in multivariate decision making

Communication and antithesis in corporate annual reports

Signaling gender diversity through annual report pictures.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-280-47867-5

9786610478675

1-84544-609-7

OCLC:

133167962