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Inquiry and Accounting: Alternate Methods and Research Perspectives - Hardcover

Riahi-Belkaoui, Ahmed

 
9780899302225: Inquiry and Accounting: Alternate Methods and Research Perspectives

Synopsis

In an important and innovative contribution to the scholarship of accounting theory, Ahmed Belkaoui presents new ways of thinking about the practices, problems, and directions of accounting. According to Belkaoui, researchers, practitioners, users, and students of accounting hold many different visions of the field, each the result of a conscious choice between alternative approaches, methodologies, images, structures, and paradigms. Here, Belkaoui offers a thorough, comprehensive examination of these various methods and techniques of accounting as well as an in-depth exploration of their philosophical determinants.

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About the Author

AHMED BELKAOUI is Professor of Accounting at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a recognized authority on accounting. He has served as a consultant to corporations, institutions, and governments throughout the world. Among his recent books are Human Information Processing in Accounting (Quorum, 1989), Industrial Bonds and the Rating Process, International Accounting, Socio-Economic Accounting, Public Policy and the Problems and Practices of Accounting, and The Learning Curve (all published by Quorum Books). He is the author of more than 70 articles and reviews.

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