The Routledge companion to accounting communication / edited by Lisa Jack, Jane Davison and Russell Craig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Craig, Russell (Russell James)

Davison, Jane.

Jack, Lisa.

Series:

Routledge companions in business, management and accounting.

The Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in accounting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (649 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the prime purposes of accounting is to communicate and yet, to date, this fundamental aspect of the discipline has received relatively little attention. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication represents the first collection of contributions to focus on the power of communication in accounting. The chapters have a shared aim of addressing the misconception that accounting is a purely technical, number-based discipline by highlighting the use of narrative, visual and technological methods to communicate accounting information. The contents comprise a mixture of refl

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; PART 1 The landscape; 1 The power of accounting communication; 2 The accounting communication research landscape; 3 An historical perspective from the work of Chambers; PART 2 A variety of media: beyond numbers; 4 The language of corporate annual reports: a critical discourse analysis; 5 Visual perspectives; 6 Perspectives on the role of metaphor; 7 Rhetoric and the art of memory; 8 Accounting narratives and impression management; PART 3 Contemporary and professional issues

9 Phantasmagoria, sustain-a-babbling in social and environmental reporting10 Accounting communication inside organizations; 11 Communication apprehension and accounting education; 12 Review of US pedagogic research and debates on writing in accounting; 13 Is XBRL a 'killer app'?; PART 4 Construction of meaning; 14 A Big Four practitioner view; 15 Argument, audit and principles-based accounting; 16 A critical perspective; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 28, 2013).

ISBN:

1-135-07158-6

0-203-59349-9

9780203593493

OCLC:

843642580