This book provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and thought-provoking examination of the ethical issues encountered by accountants working in the industry, public practice, nonprofit service, and government. Gordon Klein s, Ethics in Accounting: A Decision-Making Approach, helps students understand all topics commonly prescribed by state Boards of Accountancy regarding ethics literacy. Ethics in Accounting can be utilized in either a one-term or two-term course in Accounting Ethics. A contemporary focus immerses readers in real world ethical questions with recent trending topics such as celebrity privacy, basketball point-shaving, auditor inside trading, and online dating. Woven into chapters are tax-related issues that address fraud, cheating, confidentiality, contingent fees and auditor independence. Duties arising in more commonplace roles as internal auditors, external auditors, and tax practitioners are, of course, examined as well.

Get effective and efficient instruction on all CIA exam competencies in 2020 Wiley CIA Exam Review Focus Notes 2020 Complete Set provides readers with all current Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) content requirements. Filled with visual aids like tree diagrams, line drawings, memory devices, tables, charts, and graphic text boxes, the material is accessibly written from a student s perspective and designed to aid in recall and retention. The Focus Notes contain all the internal audit, audit practice, and business knowledge elements Certified Internal Auditor test-takers will need to succeed on the practice of internal auditing section of this challenging exam.

Selecting from the wide range of research methodologies remains a dilemma for all scholars, not least those looking to study the world of accounting. Both established and emerging research methods are frequently advocated, creating a challengingly broad range of choices.

Covering a selection of qualitative methodological issues, research strategies and methods, this comprehensive compilation provides an essential guide to the choice and execution of qualitative research approaches in this field. The contributions are grouped into four sections:

Worldview and paradigms

Methodologies and strategies

Data collection methods and analysis

Experiencing qualitative field research: personal reflections

Edited by leading scholars, with contributions from experts and rising stars, this volume will be essential reading for anyone looking to undertake research in the qualitative accounting field.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction

1. Researching Everyday Accounting Practice: Epistemological Debate

Mark A. Covaleski, Kathryn Haynes, Zahirul Hoque and Lee D. Parker

Part II: Worldviews and Paradigms

2. Social Constructionist Research in Accounting: A Reflection on the Accounting Profession

Mark A. Covaleski, Mark W. Dirsmith and Sajay Samuel

3. Interpretive Research In Accounting: Past, Present and Future

Kari Lukka and Sven Modell

4. Critical Studies in Accounting: Researching the Exercise of Power

Marcia Annisette and Christine Cooper

5. Historiography in Accounting Research

Garry D. Carnegie and Christopher J. Napier

6. Grounded Theory Approach to Accounting Studies: Overview of Principles, Assumptions and Methods

Andrew Goddard

7. Visual Methodologies for Accounting and Accountability

Jane Davison and Samantha Warren

8. Appreciative Inquiry for Accounting Research

Zahirul Hoque

Part III: Methodologies and Strategies

9. Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Anthropology Studies In Accounting

Colin Dey

10. Case Studies in Accounting Research

Bill Lee and Christopher G. Humphrey

11. An Emergence of Narrative Approaches in Social Sciences and in Accounting Research

Barbara Czarniawska

12. Oral History

Theresa A. Hammond

13. Autoethnography In Accounting Research

Kathryn Haynes

14. Action Research in Accounting

Timothy J. Fogarty

15. Discourse Analysis in Accounting Research

Rihab Khalifa and Habib Mahama

16. An Introduction to Interventionist Research in Accounting

John Dumay and Vicky Baard

17. Reflexivity in Accounting Research

Kathryn Haynes

Part IV: Data Collection and Analysis

18. Mixed Methods for Understanding Accounting Issues

Basil Tucker and Zahirul Hoque

19. Field Interviews: Process and Analysis

Habib Mahama and Rihab Khalifa

20. Participant Observation at the Coalface

Lee D. Parker

21. Content Analysis

David Campbell

22. Focus Group Discussions

Elizabeth Gammie, Susan Hamilton and Valerie Gilchrist

23. Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data in Management Accounting Research

Mark A. Covaleski, Mark W. Dirsmith and Sajay Samuel

24. Qualitative Data Management and Analysis Software

Fiona Anderson-Gough, Carla Edgley and Nina Sharma

25. Credibility and Authenticity in Qualitative Accounting Research

Martin Messner, Jodie Moll and Torkel Stromsten

Part IV: Experiencing Qualitative Field Research: Personal Reflections

26. A Case Study Research Project: Personal Reflections

Sophia Ji

27. Etics, Emics and Ethnomethodology in Accounting Research

Vassili Joannides

28. Ethical Considerations In Qualitative Research: Personal Experiences From The Field

Esin Ozdil, Chatruika Seneviratne and Xuan Thuy Mai

29. Conducting Oral History Research: Reflections From the Field

Kathie Ross /

This volume draws together contemporary topics, themes and methodologies in the field of sustainability reporting and assurance to reveal how sustainability information is actually used, interpreted and processed by internal and external users. The volume covers the following topics: 1 value relevance of sustainability information; 2 methodology and performance of Socially Responsible Investment funds; 3 the current regulatory environment for both professional and legislative corporate sustainability reporting, and the case for more comprehensive systematic regulation 4 the role and effectiveness of shareholder activism in promoting improved sustainability practices among corporations; 5 accounting challenges of the carbon economy in developed and developing nations; 6 developing a theoretical framework for understanding the links between sustainability strategy, accounting and communication; 7 recent empirical evidence on how organisations collect, measure and integrate sustainability information for internal decision-making tasks; 8 understanding how to rank and rate the quality of corporate reporting from a sustainability perspective; 9 audit and assurance of sustainability information.

Principles of Accounts for CSEC 2nd edition prepares students for the examination at CSEC level as well as subsequent post-secondary, professional studies and entry-level employment. Written by an experienced team of Accounting educators and examiners, the course matches the syllabus exactly giving the students confidence that they are preparing effectively for the examination. This accompanying workbook complements and further extends the opportunities for students to practice, review and develop the skills they have learnt.

Die deutschen Banken und Sparkassen sehen sich in den letzten Jahren zunehmend mit gesattigten Markten, erhoehtem Ertragsdruck und steigender Wettbewerbsintensitat konfrontiert. Das Schlusselproblem scheint in den begrenzten Wachstumsmoeglichkeiten und mangelnder Ertragskraft zu liegen. Dieses Buch beleuchtet wichtige Aspekte der aktuellen Entwicklung in der deutschen Bankenlandschaft und eroertert kritisch den dringenden Anpassungsbedarf, notwendige Massnahmen und moegliche strategische Optionen fur eine profitable Neuausrichtung der Banken und Sparkassen.

This concise volume evaluates the cause and significance of recent corporate failures and financial scandals, and how they reflect on the fitness for purpose of the external auditors, financial reports, financial watchdogs, boards, directors and senior management. Failures like the disastrous collapse of Carillion, examined at length, have ultimately led to a crisis of confidence not only in the audit process but in the entire process of financial reporting. Revealing the shortcomings in audit quality, independence, choice and the growing expectation gap, Financial Failures and Scandals questions if the profession, its regulators or government watchdogs, are adequately prepared for the challenges of increasing regulation, public outcry and political scrutiny in the face of inevitable future financial failures. The fundamental structures of financial reporting, annual reports, boards of directors and senior management are often found to have failed. Tighter regulation and new requirements for reporting will inevitably result. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with insiders, users and experts, this unique book provides a compelling account of the profoundly disruptive impact of financial failures on corporate and financial accountability. Topical and readable, this book will be of great interest to students, researchers and professionals in accounting and auditing, as well as to policy makers and regulators.

Die agtiende uitgawe van Rekeningkundige Standaarde is bedoel vir tweede- of derdejaarstudente in Finansiele Rekeningkunde of studente wat graag 'n inleiding tot rekeningkundige standaarde wil he. Hierdie uitgawe stel studente bekend aan die beginsels van die Internasionale Finansiele. Verslagdoeningstandaarde. Die rekeningkundige beginsels word geillustreer deur vrae wat geleidelik in moeilikheidsgraad toeneem. Die benadering bevorder studente se begrip van die beginsels en stel hulle in staat om finansiele state op 'n praktiese manier te bemeester. 'n Aanduiding word gegee indien 'n vraag onderwerpe bevat wat nie in die hersiene SAICA-sillabus voorkom nie, maar wat relevant vir ander sillabusse mag wees of vir die verdieping van die student se begrip.

1 Einleitung.- 1.1 Controlling als hierarchisches System.- 1.2 Zielsetzung und Aufbau der Arbeit.- 2 Die hierarchische Controllingkonzeption.- 2.1 Erlauterung eines allgemeinen Grundkonzeptes hierarchischer Systeme.- 2.1.1 Definition eines Entscheidungsmodells.- 2.1.2 Hierarchische UEberlagerung von Entscheidungsmodellen.- 2.2 Spezifikation des allgemeinen hierarchischen Grundkonzeptes.- 2.2.1 Koordination als Ressourcen- und Steuerungsentscheidung.- 2.2.2 Spezifikation der Koordinationskriterien.- 2.2.3 Kopplungsgleichungen der hierarchischen Controllingkonzeption.- 3 Koordinationskonzepte im Rahmen der hierarchischen Controllingkonzeption.- 3.1 Grenzfalle der hierarchischen Controllingkonzeption.- 3.1.1 Taktisch-operative Planung.- 3.1.2 Stochastische dynamische Programmierung.- 3.1.3 Simultanplanung.- 3.2 Konzepte bei einem Entscheider.- 3.2.1 Das Schneeweiss'sche Konzept der Lenkkosten.- 3.2.2 Das Informationswertkonzept.- 3.3 Konzepte bei mehreren Entscheidern.- 3.3.1 Das Delegationswertkonzept.- 3.3.2 Die Teamtheorie.- 3.3.3 Die Agency-Theorie.- 3.4 Ein erweitertes Agency-Modell.- 3.4.1 Ein Beispiel zum erweiterten Agency-Modell: Erlauterung der Entscheidungssituation.- 3.4.2 Der hidden action Fall ohne Ressourcenentscheidung.- 3.4.3 Der hidden action Fall mit Ressourcenentscheidung.- 3.4.4 Der hidden action und hidden information Fall.- 3.4.5 Der hidden action und hidden information Fall mit Kommunikation.- 3.5 Vergleich zweier extremer Koordinationshierarchien.- 3.6 Zusammenfassung.- 4 Koordinationsprobleme bei nicht-opportunistischem Verhalten.- 4.1 Zusammenhang zwischen pagatorischen und wertmassigen Kosten.- 4.1.1 Konkretisierung der Entscheidungssituation.- 4.1.2 Einordnung in die hierarchische Controllingkonzeption.- 4.1.3 Vorteile der Einordnung.- 4.2 Gemeinkostenallokation zur Approximation von Opportunitatskosten.- 4.2.1 Konkretisierung der Entscheidungssituation.- 4.2.2 Simultanplanung bei vollkommener Information.- 4.2.3 Delegation des Faktoreinsatzes bei vollkommener Information.- 4.2.4 Approximative Steuerung bei asymmetrischer Information.- 4.2.5 Einordnung in die hierarchische Controllingkonzeption.- 4.2.6 Vorteile der Einordnung.- 4.3 Ressourcendimensionierung und Opportunitatskosten.- 4.3.1 Erlauterung und Einordnung des Modells.- 4.3.2 Zentrale Planung.- 4.3.3 Delegation der Preisentscheidung.- 4.3.4 Vorteile der Einordnung.- 4.4 Der investitionstheoretische Ansatz der Kostenrechnung.- 4.4.1 Der investitionstheoretische Ansatz am Beispiel von Abschreibungen.- 4.4.2 Operative Produktionsprogrammplanung unter Verwendung investitionstheoretischer Abschreibungen.- 4.4.3 Einordnung in die hierarchische Controllingkonzeption.- 4.4.4 Vorteile der Einordnung.- 4.5 Koordination bei relaxierten Praferenzsystemen.- 4.5.1 Konkretisierung der Entscheidungssituation.- 4.5.2 Einordnung in die hierarchische Controllingkonzeption.- 4.5.3 Vorteile der Einordnung.- 4.6 Koordination eines Optimierungsoperators.- 4.6.1 Konkretisierung der Entscheidungssituation.- 4.6.2 Einordnung in die hierarchische Controllingkonzeption.- 4.6.3 Vorteile der Einordnung.- 4.7 Opportunitatskosten und einmalige Kommunikation.- 4.7.1 Konkretisierung der Entscheidungssituation.- 4.7.2 Untersuchung unterschiedlicher Kommunikationsmoeglichkeiten.- 4.7.3 Einordnung in die hierarchische Controllingkonzeption.- 4.7.4 Vorteile der Einordnung.- 4.8 Opportunitatskosten und iterative Kommunikation.- 4.8.1 Konkretisierung der Entscheidungssituation.- 4.8.2 Einordnung in die hierarchische Controllingkonzeption.- 4.8.3 Vorteile der Einordnung.- 4.9 Zusammenfassung.- 5 Koordinationsprobleme bei opportunistischem Verhalten.- 5.1 Verzerrte Kostenvorgaben als optimale Koordinationsform.- 5.1.1 Konkretisierung der Entscheidungssituation.- 5.1.2 Einordnung in die hierarchische Controllingkonzeption.- 5.1.3 Vorteile der Einordnung.- 5.2 Verrechnungspreise bei opportunistischem Verhalten.- 5.2.1 Konkretisierung der Entscheidungssituation.- 5.2.2 Zentral

There has been much written on the importance of responsibility accounting and integrated reporting to ensure business accountability, but not on how to be a responsible accountant. As the accounting profession is built on the foundation of maintaining public trust, making the right decisions when faced with a challenging dilemma has a major impact on the long-term performance and perception of the firm as well as personal credibility. Accountants make judgement calls on a regular basis: they are privy to highly confidential information regarding their clients and their clients' businesses. Unethical earnings management practices can easily lead to falsifying records, but how does the accounting professional avoid succumbing to these practices when faced with other pressures? Giving Voice to Values in Accounting is the first book to explain the ethical dilemmas faced by accountants in their day-to-day work and to provide clear guidance for accounting students and professionals in navigating through these issues. The Giving Voice to Values (GVV) framework focuses on resolving ethical conflict by encouraging individuals to act on their values. This book provides accounting educators, coaches, trainers and professionals with both the impetus and the tools to easily implement the GVV offering into their own work, their organizations and in the classroom.

Hier erfahren Sie, wie Sie im Firmenkundengeschaft auch auf globalisierten Markten erfolgreich bleiben.

Consumption of alcohol is a globally ubiquitous, often controversial activity, and business organizations in this sector are of significant social and economic relevance. This book draws on accounting records from the sector to reveal fresh and unique insights into the historic development of the production of alcoholic beverages. Offering a historic overview of the three major areas of the alcohol industry - brewing, distilling and wine - this book reveals the commonalities and differences which are present in the industry, while also highlighting its social impact. The editors bring together contributions from around the world, including Mexico, France, Japan and Ireland, to demonstrate how accounting has developed over time. Offering diverse geographical and historical perspectives, it explores multiple aspects of accounting within the industry, including internal control, earnings management, competition, and regulatory aspects. The fascinating insights into breweries, wineries, spirit distillers, vineyards and other related organizations provides a unique historic perspective of accounting systems, techniques and practices. Drawing on an international range of examples and rich archival material, this valuable research collection will be of great interest to researchers and advanced students of accounting and business history.

Accounting is frequently portrayed as a value free mechanism for allocating resources and ensuring they are employed in the most efficient manner. Contrary to this popular opinion, the research presented in Accounting at War demonstrates that accounting for military forces is primarily a political practice. Throughout history, military force has been so pervasive that no community of any degree of complexity has succeeded in. Through to the present day, for all nation states, accounting for the military and its operations has primarily served broader political purposes. From the Crimean War to the War on Terror, accounting has been used to assert civilian control over the military, instill rational business practices on war, and create the visibilities and invisibilities necessary to legitimize the use of force. Accounting at War emphasizes the significant power that financial and accounting controls gave to political elites and the impact of these controls on military performance. Accounting at War examines the effects of these controls in wars such as the Crimean, South African and Vietnam wars. Accounting at War also emphasizes how accounting has provided the means to rationalize and normalize violence, which has often contributed to the acceleration and expansion of war. Aimed at researchers and academics in the fields of accounting, accounting history, political management and sociology, Accounting at War represents a unique and critical perspective to this cutting-edge research field.

This series has been endorsed by Cambridge International to support the syllabus for examination from 2023. Provide the knowledge, understanding and skills required to succeed in the revised Cambridge International AS & A Level Accounting syllabus (9706), with a clear and accessible resource, featuring questions throughout to challenge learners at every level. - Strengthen subject knowledge with a range of question types designed to test understanding of key topics within the syllabus, including past paper and exam-style questions. - Unpack challenging concepts with a course that's written for international students and includes suitable content and language levels, key terminology and a Glossary will provide useful reference points to help ESL learners to access the material fully, remember and process information. - Provide a clear pathway for progression with clearly distinguished syllabus statements to be covered within each chapter. - Develop analytical skills with worked examples providing full and clear explanations of each concept.

Harold Cecil Edey (1913-2007) and his colleagues David Solomons (1912-1995) and William T. Baxter (1907-2006) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) were instrumental in the development of British accounting thought in the mid-1900s. These three influential scholars influenced a generation of students who came to populate the British accounting profession and academia to the point where, in the early 1970s, half of all full-time accounting professors in the United Kingdom were LSE alumni. Edey's role in these developments, however, remains relatively underappreciated. This edited volume contains 13 of Edey's unpublished manuscripts written during the heyday of the LSE Triumvirate. These manuscripts address issues of accounting education, measurements, and theory, and they are accompanied by editorial comments that put the material in its historical context. The volume also contains an aide-memoire of Edey's professional activities and a complete bibliography of his published work. The material offers new insight into Edey's contribution to the British accounting profession, and developments at the LSE, during a critical period of academic expansion and struggle to address the problem of accounting for rising inflation. The material is of value to anyone interested in the development of accounting thought.

Presents the fundamental finance and accounting processes, methods, strategies and terminology necessary for engineers and engineering managers to interpret financial data properly - examining topics such as cost and break-even analysis, the time value of money, financial ratios and discounted cash flow techniques. The information is designed to enable engineers and project managers to prepare, appraise, evaluate and approve financial plans to accomplish specific departmental and company objectives.

The interplay between accounting, innovative entrepreneurship, and knowledge management is an increasingly crucial and yet under-researched topic. These apparently compartmental debates need to be integrated and comprehended as a whole to support the entrepreneurial adventure in this new era. This book proposes a novel approach to the understanding of an entrepreneurial world that is quickly changing. It ties together the debates surrounding control, innovative entrepreneurship, and knowledge management, and acknowledges that there is a need to build a bridge between theory and practice. In doing so it provides a rich empirical analysis to support and complement the theoretical issues raised. The book offers a profound but easily understandable theoretical systematization, to date unavailable, alongside relevant practical and policy implications drawn from real case studies and business plans. The book will prove a useful and thought-provoking read to academic researchers and practitioners who are interested in the key interplay of these previously isolated disciplines.

Der Band zeigt Entwicklungslinien kapitalmarkt- und bankbezogener Forschung auf und prasentiert Einzelbeitrage zu ausgewahlten Phanomenen auf Finanzmarkten."

Is society possible without accounting? In speech or in writing, we communicate actions, plans and decisions using numbers, calculations, words and images. Although accounting research is dominated by quantitative analyses, the role of accounting in society is firmly established over thousands of years. In this concise book, Lisa Jack demonstrates the power of social theory in expanding the value of accounting research. Accounting and Social Theory: An introduction includes advice on research problems as well as guidance on fertile areas for new research. The tools, techniques and developments covered by the author help readers to see social research in accounting as the study of the use, misuse and abuse of accounting communications by people and the effects that this has on social relationships. Stories of accounting in war, agriculture and food, gender, health and other areas illustrate the ways in which the threads of accounting run through society. Having emerged from the author's wealth of teaching experience, this book provides a student-focused treasure trove that illuminates the field for early-career researchers in accounting and established academics looking to expand the impact of their work.

De Octavio Reyes La planeaci n estrat gica es considerada una herramienta de trabajo que ha promovido el crecimiento y desarrollo de las grandes culturas de la humanidad, quienes a trav s de administrar procesos estrat gicos de largo plazo y de gran alcance, les ha permitido emprender y concluir proyectos majestuosos, tal es el caso de la cultura griega y el Parten n, las civilizaciones de oriente y la construcci n de una gran Muralla China de protecci n; de la misma forma se puede citar al Coliseo y el dise o de la Ciudad de Roma, as como la cultura egipcia y los templos fara nicos, tambi n podemos citar las culturas prehisp nicas en donde se erigi el santuario de Machu Pichu en Per, las pir mides de Teotihuac n, Tula y Tenochtitl n en M xico y por supuesto el complejo de ciudades mayas, entre otros ejemplos que ilustran los beneficios de aplicar una eficaz y eficiente planeaci n estrat gica. Es as que esta obra se propone ofrecer al lector un conjunto de instrumentos que apoyen a los ejecutivos de la alta direcci n para estructurar y operar la planeaci n estrat gica de la organizaci n.

Accounting sustainably involves accounting for and to the natural environment, and accounting for and to society, including groups currently oppressed or disadvantaged by unsustainable processes and practices. This book creates a compelling case for the inclusion of sustainability at the heart of accounting educational programmes, offering critical lessons and identifying risks to avoid when designing accounting programmes and courses. Accounting sustainability has moved from the side-lines of policy discourses, accounting institutions, professional accounting practices, and research activities into the mainstream. The chapters in this proposed book engage in a critical dialogue to facilitate change in accounting education for sustainability. They dispel the myth that accounting for sustainability is an oxymoron, bad for business, unrelated to practice, or contrary to professional accounting bodies' accreditation requirements. This book was originally published as a special issue of Accounting Education.

Praise for Accounting Control Best Practices, Second Edition

"A comprehensive, well-organized reference manual that is perfect for managers and auditors of public and private companies. Whether you wish to comply with the rigors of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or take your company to the next level, Accounting Control Best Practices, Second Edition contains virtually everything you'll need to design, challenge, and improve your company's internal control environment."
--Matthew T. Posta, Esq., CPA

"Steven Bragg continues to improve the accounting field by providing thorough, step-by-step instruction in accounting best practices. During a recent software conversion, his book was my expert guide ensuring that the previous manual controls were replaced with the now automated process. It provides practical steps for both small and large organizations."
--Melody TroesserDirector of Accounting ServicesCole County Residential Services, Inc.

"This updated reference is a comprehensive source for those who design, implement, or evaluate controls. Guidance is focused on understanding and mitigating risks, while also acknowledging the importance of efficiency and the use of automated systems. A very worthwhile addition to our knowledge base in today's control-aware environment."
--Clint Davies, PrincipalBerry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker