Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Accounting and emancipation: developing and promoting an alignment; Jeremy Bentham, accountant: a radical vision of an emancipatory modern accounting; Accounting and emancipatory practice: the mobilising of accounting by socialist agitators of the late nineteenth century; Is social accounting the soul of justice? Towards a critical appreciation with emancipatory intent; Epilogue: accounting, emancipation and praxis today; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book elaborates a critique of contemporary accounting. The authors encourage those with a close interest in accounting to make the search for a more emancipatory and enabling accounting a core area of their interest