A Journey into Accounting Thought / Edition 1

by Louis Goldberg, Stewart Leech

Overview

This book explores the role of accountants in business and society. The final work of Louis Goldberg, Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, it aims to raise awareness of the existence and importance of fundamental issues that are often ignored or by-passed in contemporary discussion of accounting. The sixteen chapters assess exactly what accountants do in carrying out their work.
This work will make essential reading for scholars or historians of accounting, and will also interest philosophers and practicing accountants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415260213
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/12/2001
Series:	Routledge Studies in Accounting , #1
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Louis Goldberg, Stewart Leech

Table of Contents

Part I: Background
Part II: Perceptions and Concepts
Part III: Constraints
Part IV: Loosening Shackles