Accounting Control and Controlling Accounting: Interdisciplinary and Critical Perspectives - Softcover

Broadbent, Jane; Laughlin, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781907625 ISBN 13: 9781781907627

Publisher: Emerald Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

This book advocates and illustrates the power of Interdisciplinary & Critical Perspectives, drawn from a range of social sciences, to critically analyse accounting processes & practices. Its particular focus is the extensive forms of societal regulations & requirements that are made over organisations, particularly public sector organisations, that are driven by forms of accounting, collectively described as Accounting Control in the book. These regulations & requirements are deeply resented by these public sector organisations and, as a result, all manner of resistance strategies are adopted, which are described as Controlling Accounting in the book. The book is primarily conceptual but, given the particular Interdisciplinary & Critical research approach adopted, relies heavily on drawing from empirical cases to develop the conceptual ideas. The book, therefore, analyses actual public sector Accounting Control & Controlling Accounting strategies and counter-strategies primarily, but not exclusively, from the United Kingdom, to develop the conceptual ideas. The book ends with a critical analysis of the forces & counter-forces of Accounting Control & Controlling Accounting.

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About the Author

Jane Broadbent - University of Roehampton, London, UK
Richard Laughlin - King's College London, University of London , UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781907625
• ISBN 13: 9781781907627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 285