Beyond Perceptions, Crafting Meaning

by Cheryl R. Lehman

Overview

Researching accounting’s participation in financial regulation, banking practices, managerial incentives and environmental disclosures this volume presents scholarly work adopting interdisciplinary approaches in auditing and accountability realms. Although conceptually accounting enhances public spheres and contributes to constraining overarching power, researchers question whether in practice accounting supports responsible activities. Among the provocations offered, authors ask: what is material? How are decisions to foster environmental protection best motivated? What is a set of public policies and practices by which responsible actions can be defined and fraud minimized? Questioning accounting as rational in how policy is established the authors delve into accounting interactions and conflicts. Their perspectives and insights enrich our understanding of accounting policies, organizations and relationships dismissing separate worlds of social, economic and political factors. Their research illustrates how dichotomies of private versus public and legal versus moral obscure important connections.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789732245
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	05/28/2019
Series:	Advances in Public Interest Accounting , #21
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.53(d)

Table of Contents

1. Do Sustainability Measures Matter in Managerial Appraisal and Rewards?; Regina F. Bento, Lasse Mertins & Lourdes F. White 
2. An Examination of the Perceptions of Auditors and Chief Financial Officers of the Proposed Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts Definition of Materiality; Ning Du, John McEnroe & Mary Mindak 
3. An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of SEC Oversight of Climate Change Disclosure: An Analysis of Comment Letters; Martin Freedman & and Jin Dong Park 
4. The "Scarcity-Munificence" of Banks and Market Manipulation: A Financial Strain Analysis of the LIBOR Fraud; Mark E. Lokanan 
5. Environmental Efficiency, Firm Efficiency and Managerial Ability; Li Sun

Editorial Reviews

As volume 21 in the series “Advances in Public Interest Accounting”, Lehman’s new book presents the scholarly work of contributors whose interdisciplinary approaches reveal research in several areas-finance, management, environmental, and banking. They foster inquiries regarding the definition of materiality, managerial, appraisal, SEC oversight, and LIBOR fraud. Their collective insights bolster understanding of not only accounting policies, but also relationships, organizations, things private and public, as well as the legal and moral.

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As volume 21 in the series “Advances in Public Interest Accounting”, Lehman’s new book presents the scholarly work of contributors whose interdisciplinary approaches reveal research in several areas-finance, management, environmental, and banking. They foster inquiries regarding the definition of materiality, managerial, appraisal, SEC oversight, and LIBOR fraud. Their collective insights bolster understanding of not only accounting policies, but also relationships, organizations, things private and public, as well as the legal and moral.

Annotation ©2019