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Critical Accounts

Reorientating Accounting Research

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. David J. Cooper

    1. University of Alberta, Canada

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  2. Trevor M. Hopper

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Stimulating Research in Critical Accounts

    1. Stimulating Research in Critical Accounts

      • David J. Cooper, Trevor M. Hopper
      Pages 1-11

  4. Accounting and the Control of Labour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Factories of the Past and of the Future: the Impact of Robotics on Workers and Management Accounting Systems

      • S. Mark Young, Jon S. Davis
      Pages 87-106

    3. Accounting as Discipline

      • John Roberts, Robert W. Scapens
      Pages 107-125

    4. Joint Consultation and the Disclosure of Information: an Historical Perspective

      • Philip D. Bougen, Stuart Ogden
      Pages 126-152

    5. Annual Reports in an Ideological Role: A Critical Theory Analysis

      • Norman B. Macintosh
      Pages 153-172

    6. Power/Accounts and Ideology

      • Gavin Murray
      Pages 173-189

  5. Alternative Accounting Calculations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Accounting: Tool of Business or Tool of Society?

      • Derek Bailey
      Pages 193-215

    3. A Marxian Analysis of National Income and Expenditure

      • Jon Gubbay
      Pages 216-232

    4. Measuring the Performance of Worker Co-operatives

      • Keith Jefferis, Alan Thomas
      Pages 233-259

    5. Consequences of the Failure to Account for Externalities

      • Martin Freedman, A. J. Stagliano
      Pages 260-271

    6. Corporate Social Accounting and the Capitalist Enterprise

      • T. Colwyn Jones
      Pages 272-293

    7. Value for Money Auditing: Some Observations on its Origins and Theory

      • Brendan McSweeney, Michael Sherer
      Pages 294-312

  6. The Accounting Profession and Power

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 313-313
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About this book

A collection of essays which are a product of the First Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, held at the University of Manchester 1985. Accounting theory, policy, control of labour, alternative accounting calculations, power and the profession itself are discussed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Alberta, Canada

    David J. Cooper

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Trevor M. Hopper

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Accounts

  • Book Subtitle: Reorientating Accounting Research

  • Editors: David J. Cooper, Trevor M. Hopper

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09786-9

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 419

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Accounting/Auditing

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