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Author Lennon, Niels Joseph, author

Title Accounting, representation and responsibility : Deleuze and Guattari perspectives / Niels Joseph Lennon
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (92 pages)
Series Routledge focus on accounting and auditing
Routledge focus on accounting and auditing.
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
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2020)
Subject Accounting -- Philosophy
Decision making.
Responsibility accounting.
Managerial accounting.
decision making.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Managerial
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior
Accounting -- Philosophy
Decision making
Managerial accounting
Responsibility accounting
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020013890
ISBN 9780367136024
0367136023
9780429637537
0429637535
9780429640704
0429640706
042964387X
9780429643873