Handbook of accounting in society / edited by Hendrik Vollmer, (Reader of Accounting, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK and Associate Editor of European Accounting Review).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vollmer, Hendrik, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in accounting

Research handbooks on accounting

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Accounting--Social aspects.

Accounting.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"The Handbook of Accounting in Society invites readers to consider the ways in which accounting affects organizations, institutions, communities, professions, and everyday life. Diverse in its reach, this Handbook campaigns for the need to reconsider our understanding of what accounting is and crucially, what it can become. Hendrik Vollmer brings together an array of scholars to discuss how accounting practice is shaping the way we do business and government, the way we negotiate our values and valuations, and how we keep track of ourselves and prepare for the future. Contributors highlight how little of accounting is controlled by the accounting profession and raises key persistent issues in accounting practice that concern the professional practitioner as much as the everyday life accountant: accountability and unaccountability, inequality and social justice, and inclusion and exclusion. This dynamic Handbook argues for the redevelopment of accounting education and illustrates the emancipatory potential of alternative forms of accounting, counter accounting, and accounting activism. Reinvigorating the interdisciplinary approach to accounting and its place in society, this Handbook will be a vital read for scholars, researchers and students specializing in accounting, management, governance and sustainability, business ethics, diversity and inclusion, public administration, organizational behaviour, and organizational culture. It will also be an informative read for accounting professionals, social scientists interested in accounting practice, and political activists engaged in counter accounting"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Part I: Introduction

1. Introduction to handbook of accounting in society: Seeing accountants everywhere / Hendrik Vollmer

Part II: History, accounting, society

2. Accounting in society? Accounting and society / Ann-Christine Frandsen and Keith Hoskin

3. Accounting in society: A historical perspective / Karen McBride and Shraddha Verma

Part III: Accounting and the shape of business

4. The temporalities of financialized accounting / Adam Leaver

5. Accounting for values at risk: Risk management and moral imagination / Anette Mikes and Ken Okamura

Part IV: Accounting for government and public management

6. Accounting for public value / James Brackley

7. Reflecting on the 'ethos' of public sector accounting: From 'taken-for-granted' to 'plural' values? / Jan van Helden and Ileana Steccolini

8. 'Management by accounting': The roles of accounting in agencification / Budi Waluyo

9. Accounting for emergency, emergency for accounting: A bibliometric review / Antonio D'Andreamatteo, Martina Mattioli and Massimo Sargiacomo

Part V: Accounting for our future: Pension, taxes, welfare

10. Preparing the future: The roles of accounting in public and private pensions / Cameron Graham

11. Us and them: The role of accounting in (re)creating social inequality through encounters with tax and welfare administration / Sara Closs-Davies

12. The calculation and administration of taxes as an economizing force / Penelope Tuck, Thomas Cuckston and Dominic de Cogan

Part VI: Accounting for ourselves

13. Foundations for socio-ecological accounting scholarship / Jan Bebbington, Giovanna Michelon and Shona Russell

14. Accounting for gender equality / Ulrike Marx

15. Accounting vs. Economic inequality - two examples of critical accounting praxis / Stewart Smyth and James Brackley

Part VII: Faithful accountants and accountings

16. Muslim women accountants: The unknown feminists / Rania Kamla

17. 'Accountable creatures': Christianity and accounting / Alistair Mutch

Part VIIi: Accounting cultures

18. Portraying the accountant in popular culture: Reflections on the accountant (2016) movie / Ingrid Jeacle

19. Accounting perspectives in the digital world: Controlling online interaction / Penelope Van den Bussche

Part IX: Accounting activists

20. Activism and accounting / Colin Dey

21. Demanding accountability through grass roots activism: The case of service charging in english social housing / Amanze Ejiogu and Mercy Denedo

22. The accountability assembly as a counter-accounting performance / Rebecca Warren, Anne Steinhoff, Konstantinos Roussos and Jason Glynos

23. Queer accounting voices: Accounting academics' oral stories / Alessandro Ghio and Theresa Hammond

Part X: Globalisation, empire, and competing worlds

24. Postcolonialism in accounting / Chandana Alawattage

25. Racism in the accounting academy - an auto-ethnographic case study of British higher education / Atul K. Shah

26. Grappling with the angst of accounting: A reflection on the potential of an indigenous accounting approach / Glenn Finau

Part Xi: Accounting for life and death

27. Accounting and biopolitics: An Italian perspective / Michele Bigoni and Warwick Funnell

28. Wildlife in human spaces: Bringing naturalization and landscape-scale conservation into the sustainable organization / Thomas Cuckston

29. Economic rents at the end of life: For-profit eldercare and the myth of corporate accountability / Cameron Graham, Darlene Himick and Pier-Luc Nappert

30. Accounting for the good life: Accounts that break your heart / Marie-Astrid Le Theule, Caroline Lambert and Jérémy Morales

Part Xii: Conclusion

31. Encountering accounting in society / Hendrik Vollmer, Michele Bigoni, James Brackley, Sara Closs-Davies, Thomas Cuckston, Mercy Denedo, Amanze Ejiogu, Ann-Christine Frandsen, Alessandro Ghio, Keith Hoskin, Karen McBride, Shona Russell, Atul K. Shah, Penelope Tuck and Jan van Helden.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781803922003 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.