<p>The first edition of this innovative text was enthusiastically welcomed by students and critically acclaimed by the academic community. Together with its sister volume, Managerial Accounting: method and meaning, it provides an integrated introduction to the domain of accounting which should be read by every serious student. For this updated and completely revised edition the material has been broken down to shorter chapters to make it even more accessible. "This is a useful addition to the range of introductory texts, with a clear, well thought-out presentation of the mechanics of the financial accounting process and more critical material than is found in most such texts." - Accounting and Business Research PUT THIS ABOVE 'MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING' BY CHUA ET AL AND 'FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT' BY PUXTY</p>

Financial Accounting: Method & Meaning

Richard Laughlin

Jan Bebbington

Intl Thomson Business Pr

This book advocates and illustrates the power of Interdisciplinary and Critical Perspectives, drawn from a range of social sciences, to critically analyze accounting processes and practices. Its particular focus is the extensive forms of societal regulations and requirements that are made over organizations, particularly public sector organizations, that are driven by forms of accounting, collectively described as Accounting Control in the book. These regulations and requirements are deeply resented by these public sector organizations 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 and Critical research approach adopted, relies heavily on drawing from empirical cases to develop the conceptual ideas. The book, therefore, analyzes actual public sector Accounting Control and 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 and counter-forces of Accounting Control and Controlling Accounting.

Accounting Control and Controlling Accounting: Interdisciplinary and Critical Perspectives

Business & Money

Jane Broadbent

Accounting

Emerald Publishing

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