Advances in Public Interest Accounting, Volume 4

By LEHMAN/MERINO

Advances in Public Interest Accounting aims to provide a forum for researchers concerned with critically appraising and significantly transforming conventional accounting theory, practice, teaching and research. The series also aims to increase the social self-awareness of accounting practitioners, educators, and researchers, encouraging them to assume a greater responsibility for the profession's social role. Topics addressed include, but are not limited to: Expanding accounting's focus beyond the behaviour of individual corporate entities, encompassing the conflicts of interest within the accounting-regulatory process and effected groups; Exploring alternatives to traditional economics and sociology models, beyond conventional efficiency and profitability measures of corporate performance; Recognizing and examining the influences of gender and feminist theory, class and race, on accounting practice, education, and research Incorporating the significance of accounting as a communicative practice, as social dialogue, and as a social arbiter; Recognizing and examining the effect of accounting practice on environmental issues and on the externalities imposed on local and global communities; Examining accounting's participation in multinational expansion, consolidations, and changing economies undergoing transformations, such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and the European Community; Addressing the impact of new advances in information technologies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559382546
• ISBN13: 9781559382540
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"