This book addresses the recent trends, developments and future of accounting and auditing of small and medium-sized practices (AASMPs) in the public and private sectors. It disseminates the findings of a large research project carried out by both academics and practitioners from the accounting and auditing industry.
This book examines the notion of order and argues that accounting is an important part of the ensemble of technologies that construct and underpins order in societies. The book identifies several key roles played by accounting in this context, ranging from cosmology through worldly activities to the preservation of the cult of the dead.
This book unravels the complexities of carbon control practices, offering insights into financial, operational, and sustainable dimensions. Bridging the gaps in fragmented academic research, it offers an innovative interpretative key to the phenomenon of decarbonization in the hydrogen economy.
The book addresses contemporary global feminisms and their potential emancipatory implications for accounting, as a profession and as a tool or technology. It takes an overtly feminist position, informed by feminist theory, feminist methodology and feminist activism, to challenge constructions of gender and the resulting inequalities.
This book offers an in-depth examination of multi-capital accounting, the accounting of the future, which has already been integrated within the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and will follow on from sustainability reporting.
This book offers an in-depth examination of multi-capital accounting, the accounting of the future, which has already been integrated within the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and will follow on from sustainability reporting.
This book examines pressing issues such as climate change, reducing social inequalities, and human rights through the lens of fundamental theories of the firm, particularly drawing on the Italian tradition of Economia Aziendale, which views the firm as a vehicle for meeting human needs and generating social value.
When your organization opts to go lean, its accountants must be empowered with lean tools in service of the lean mission. This step-by-step workbook demonstrates how to develop information and financial reports that serve the needs of lean-minded businesses. It also includes checklists, guidelines, exercises, case studies, and company stories.
Think accounting is dull? Think again. What we accept as ‘true and fair’ in businesses’ accounts is the key to a more just, sustainable future for all of us. Here’s how we make the change.
Think accounting is dull? Think again. What we accept as ‘true and fair’ in businesses’ accounts is the key to a more just, sustainable future for all of us. Here’s how we make the change.
This book presents a multifaceted analysis and reflection of the challenges that public, private and non-profit organisations have had to face during the pandemic. It contributes to the creation of robust strategies for institutions to be able to respond promptly and equitably to future emergencies and offers insights for policy development.
In this classic work Joan Robinson goes back to the beginning and works out the basic theory that is needed for a coherent treatment of the problems that present themselves in a developing economy. This new edition features a new introduction, which discusses the great significance of Robinson's work.
This book examines the indoor acoustic environment of China's residential aged care facilities and links it with the physiological and psychological wellbeing of residents.