The Routledge Companion to Accounting and Risk (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing)

Providing a comprehensive overview, this book provides expert insights into risk from a wide range of accounting contexts.

Key themes such as corporate governance, trust, uncertainty and climate change are covered by a global cast of contributing scholars. Supported by a series of illustrative case studies, the book brings together theory and practice.

Essential reading for scholars and reflective risk practitioners, this reference volume illuminates the numerous facets of risk in light of accounting expertise.

Margaret Woods is Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Risk at Aston Business School, Aston University, UK. Founder of the European Risk Research Network, her extensive publications on risk particularly have attracted international media interest. Her book of case studies, Risk Management in Organizations, was published in 2011.

Philip Linsley is Professor of Accounting and Risk at the York Management School, University of York, UK. His research interests are risk-related and include investigating risk disclosure, and risk and culture. He is particularly interested in applying the ideas of Mary Douglas to the accounting field.