Pioneers of Critical Accounting

A Celebration of the Life of Tony Lowe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This book celebrates the life and work of Tony Lowe, a pioneer ofcritical accounting. The authors elaborate on the fact that Tony Lowe regardedaccounting as a moral and political practice rather than some dry technicalphenomena because it has serious social consequences. The essays in the bookare written by a global community of Tony’s former colleagues and students andshow the value of adopting interdisciplinary perspectives. The essays locateaccounting and business practices in wider social, economic and politicalcontexts to show that Tony’s ideas had far reaching applications forregulation, corporation governance, accounting, auditing, the environment,corporate social responsibility, organisational accountability, gender, race,globalization and the functioning of the state. The book is suitable forundergraduate and postgraduate students, scholars and practitioners seeking tofree themselves from the shackles of conventional views about accounting andbusiness practices.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-09-09
Mått148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt573 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor327
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137542113

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Jim Haslam is Professor of Accounting, Governance and Societyat the University of Sheffield, UK. His career in academia now spans overthirty years. He has published widely in several leading journals and is jointauthor (with Sonja Gallhofer) of Accountingand Emancipation: Some Critical Interventions. Prem Sikka isProfessor of Accounting at the University of Essex, UK. He has advised andgiven evidence to parliamentary committees. He holds the Working for Justice Award from Tax JusticeNetwork, Accounting Exemplar Award from the American AccountingAssociation and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Accounting andFinance Association and PQ Magazine.

Chapter 1) Introduction; Jim Haslam and PremSikka.- Chapter 2) Tony Lowe and the Interdisciplinary and CriticalPerspectives on Accounting Project: Reflections on the Contributions of aUnique Scholar; Richard Laughlin.-Chapter 3) The Man Who Always Asked Why: The Reflexive Accounting of Tony Lowe; Kerry Jacobs.- Chapter 4) Revisitingcontrol system concepts: Contingency,cybernetics and the science of the unknowable; Winnie O’Grady and Alan Lowe.- Chapter5) Organisational Effectiveness and Social and Environmental Accounting:Through the past darkly; Rob Gray, AideenO’Dochartaigh and Clemence Rannou.- Chapter 6) Thinking About CriticalMethodology; Robin Roslender.-Chapter 7) The “sustainable development” of a critical accounting project; Jesse Dillard.- Chapter 8) A briefhistorical appreciation of accounting theory? But who cares?; Michael Gaffikin.- Chapter 9) Informingsfor Control and Emancipatory Interests in Accounting: New Reflections on theIntellectual Emancipation of Accounting and the Possibilities of EmancipatoryAccountings; Jim Haslam.- Chapter 10) Think Different: Accounting as a Systems Theorist: Gender,Race and Class; Cheryl R. Lehman.-Chapter 11) A Critical Look at the IASB; Geoff Whittington; A CriticalAnalysis of the Balanced Scorecard: Towards a More Dialogic Approach; David Cooper and Mahmoud Ezzamel;Chapter 12) Re-imagining The Corporation: The Relevance of Legal, Economic andPolitical Imaginaries; Hugh Willmott andJeroen Veldman; Chapter 13) Big Four Accounting Firms: Addicted to TaxAvoidance; Prem Sikka.