Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fleischman, Richard K.
• Funnell, Warwick.
• Walker, Stephen P.

Description

vi, 274 p.; 24 cm.

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 history are seemingly more divorced from the present, but in reality they all have contemporary significance. Slavery in the New World, for example, although abolished more than a century ago, is still rampant in parts of the world, albeit less formally. Critical accounting historians feel it a duty to harken to the "suppressed voices" of the past, those groups of people who had no access to an accounting record - women, persons of color, indigenous populations, alienated proletarians, victims of governmental incompetence and graft, and many voiceless others. Critical Histories of Accounting: Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era draws on the foremost work in this developing literature, both that authored by the co-editors of this volume, and that written by others. Editors Richard K. Fleischman, Warwick N. Funnell, and Steve Walker have written extensively about "the dark side of accounting," gauging the complicity of those performing accounting functions in episodes in human history that are at worst evil and at best reprehensible. The editors have also hand-selected a series of historical and contemporary episodes that have been critically investigated by the wider accounting history community, preceded by a thorough introduction."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Routledge new works in accounting history ; 11

Uniform Title

Routledge new works in accounting history ; 11.

Subject

• Accounting > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221] -266) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Warwick Funnell and Stephen P. Walker ; A Review of Critical Histories of Accounting / Richard K. Fleischman. -- Part I: Annihilation. Accounting for the Holocaust / Warwick Funnell ; Accountants and the Holocaust / Ellen J. Lippman and Paula A. Wilson. -- Part II: Subjugation. Accounting and Canada's First Nations / Cameron Graham and Dean Neu ; Accounting and Pauperism / Stephen P. Walker ; Accounting for Famine and Empire / Philip O'Regan. -- Part III: Exploitation. Cost Accounting, Control and Capitalism / Trevor Hopper ; Somebody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Moral Issues of New World Slavery and Accounting Practitioners / David Oldroyd, Richard K. Fleischman and Thomas N. Tyson ; Accounting and Colonial Liberalism / Keith Hooper and Kate Kearins. -- Part IV: Exclusion. Women and the Accountancy Profession in England and Wales / Linda M. Kirkham and Anne Loft ; African Americans and Certified Public Accounting / Theresa Hammond and Denise W. Streeter ; Racialization in Accountancy / Marcia Annisette.

Call Number

JBE 13-921

ISBN

• 9780415886703 (alk. paper)
• 0415886708 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2012003567

OCLC

707966482

Title

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

Imprint

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Series

Routledge new works in accounting history ; 11

Routledge new works in accounting history ; 11.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221] -266) and index.

Added Author

Fleischman, Richard K.

Funnell, Warwick.

Walker, Stephen P.

Research Call Number

JBE 13-921