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Title Critical histories of accounting : sinister inscriptions in the modern era / edited by Richard K. Fleischman, Warwick Funnell, and Stephen P. Walker
Published New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 274 pages)
Series Routledge New Works in Accounting History
Routledge new works in accounting history.
Contents pt. 1. Annihilation -- pt. 2. Subjugation -- pt. 3. Exploitation -- pt. 4. Exclusion
Summary The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline's academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned Sarbanes-Oxley and the world-wide recession. Certain contemporary issues have long histories, such as the difficulties encountered by women to break the glass ceiling in public accounting, and the suffering of Indigenous peoples under the imperialistic yoke. Other episodes in accounting's long hist
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-266) and index
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Subject Accounting -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Accounting -- Financial.
Accounting
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Fleischman, Richard K.
Funnell, Warwick.
Walker, Stephen P.
ISBN 9781136241581
1136241582
9780203102749
0203102746