Accounting is a social practice: it should be evaluated in terms of its contribution to a notion of social well-being. In order to do this, this book elaborates a critique of contemporary accounting. The authors encourage those with a close interest in accounting to make the search for a more emancipatory and enabling accounting a core area of their interest. The book will stimulate debate and activity in the arenas of education, research, practice and policy-making.
Author(s): S. Gallhofer
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 240
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Accounting and emancipation: developing and promoting an alignment......Page 16
Jeremy Bentham, accountant: a radical vision of an emancipatory modern accounting......Page 37
Accounting and emancipatory practice: the mobilising of accounting by socialist agitators of the late nineteenth century......Page 81
Is social accounting the soul of justice? Towards a critical appreciation with emancipatory intent......Page 120
Epilogue: accounting, emancipation and praxis today......Page 171
Notes......Page 179
Bibliography......Page 205
Index......Page 232
