Description |
1 online resource (92 pages) |
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Routledge focus on accounting and auditing |
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Routledge focus on accounting and auditing.
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Contents |
Part I: Theoretical Plateaus -- Introduction -- What can Accounting Learn from Deleuze? -- Is Accounting Representation Work or Visualization (Re-presentation) Work? -- What is Accountability? Accountability, Responsibility and Responsibility Accounting -- Part II: Empirical Plateaus -- Territorializing Accountability -- Deterritorializing Accountability |
Summary |
"In organizations, accounting produces organizational knowledge that affect decision making and managerial action. Companies placing importance on shareholder value sometimes tend to elevate accounting to a higher truth criterion for justifying managerial actions. Yet, the nature of accounting renders it difficult to argue that accounting information necessarily produce a better basis for decision making than arguments which are not based on accounting. This is because, as previous research has also argued, accounting counts some things but omits many others, while managers are accountable for much more than what accounting actually counts. Using a theoretical apparatus from Deleuze & Guattarí, this book illustrates that accounting-based actions such as making management decisions, maintaining organisational responsibility and hierarchical control, are manifestations of the ways in which accounting is composed. This concise introduction will be invaluable for researchers and advanced students of management accounting exploring responsibility accounting and accountability"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Niels Joseph Lennon has a Ph.D. from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and is currently Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is interested in performance measurement, especially how accounting calculations construct certain visualizations of organizations and how such visualizations affect decision-making and managerial action |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2020) |
Subject |
Accounting -- Philosophy
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Decision making.
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Responsibility accounting.
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Managerial accounting.
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decision making.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Managerial
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior
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Accounting -- Philosophy
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Decision making
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Managerial accounting
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Responsibility accounting
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2020013890 |
ISBN |
9780367136024 |
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0367136023 |
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9780429637537 |
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0429637535 |
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9780429640704 |
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0429640706 |
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042964387X |
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9780429643873 |
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