Accounting and Emancipation: Some Critical Interventions

by Dr Sonja Gallhofer, Sonja Gallhofer, Professor Jim Haslam, Jim Haslam

Overview

Accounting is a social practice: it should be evaluated in terms of its contribution to a notion of social well-being. In order to do this, this book elaborates a critique of contemporary accounting. The authors encourage those with a close interest in accounting to make the search for a more emancipatory and enabling accounting a core area of their interest. The book will stimulate debate and activity in the arenas of education, research, practice and policy-making.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138965768
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/21/2016
Series:	Routledge Studies in Accounting
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sonja Gallhofer is Professor of Critical Accounting at Glasgow Caledonian University and has published numerous critical, including feminist, historical, pedagogical and cultural, analyses of accounting.
Jim Haslam is Professor of Accounting and Head of Accountancy and Finance at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He has published numerous articles contributing to the critical social analysis of accounting.

Table of Contents

1. Accounting and Emancipation: Developing and Promoting an Alignment 2. Jeremy Bentham, Accountant: A Radical Vision of an Emancipatory Modern Accounting 3. Accounting and Emancipatory Practice: The Mobilising of Accounting by Socialist Agitators of the Late Nineteenth Century 4. Is Social Accounting the Soul of Justice? Towards a Critical Appreciation of Emancipatory Intent 5. Epilogue: Accounting, Emancipation and Praxis Today