Critical Accounts

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Stimulating Research in Critical Accounts....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
A Critical Analysis of Accounting Thought: Prognosis and Prospects for Understanding and Changing Accounting Systems Design....Pages 15-43
Displacing the Corporation with Deconstructionism and Dialectics....Pages 44-63
Accounting for Feasible Socialism: Accounting, Industrial Democracy and the Theory of the Firm....Pages 64-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Factories of the Past and of the Future: the Impact of Robotics on Workers and Management Accounting Systems....Pages 87-106
Accounting as Discipline....Pages 107-125
Joint Consultation and the Disclosure of Information: an Historical Perspective....Pages 126-152
Annual Reports in an Ideological Role: A Critical Theory Analysis....Pages 153-172
Power/Accounts and Ideology....Pages 173-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Accounting: Tool of Business or Tool of Society?....Pages 193-215
A Marxian Analysis of National Income and Expenditure....Pages 216-232
Measuring the Performance of Worker Co-operatives....Pages 233-259
Consequences of the Failure to Account for Externalities....Pages 260-271
Corporate Social Accounting and the Capitalist Enterprise....Pages 272-293
Value for Money Auditing: Some Observations on its Origins and Theory....Pages 294-312
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Serving the Public Interest? A Critical Analysis of a Professional Claim....Pages 315-331
The Accountancy Profession in the Class Structure....Pages 332-365
Understanding the Development of the Accountancy Profession in the United Kingdom....Pages 366-390
Power and the Study of the Accounting Profession....Pages 391-408
Back Matter....Pages 409-419