Independent Accounts - The Possibilities for Auditor Independence in the Age of Financial Scandal (Hardcover, New)

Returning to its roots in activism and economic justice, this issue exposes accounting practice as a contested terrain by examining its role as a social force encompassing issues of value, governance, ethics, politics, and class. Arguing that the view of the discipline as objective and fair is a myth, these papers illuminate the detrimental social consequences of failing to recognize accounting??'s role in the social environment. Investigating accounting's use of ???independence??? as a protective shield in obscuring winners and losers regarding financial activity, the papers illustrate accounting??'s contribution to the failures of free markets worldwide: systemic global poverty, questionable privatization of public enterprises and public goods, and greater divides between so-called first and third world nations. Revealing the integrated nature of regulation, accounting, and ethics, the papers in this volume question the logic of merely fine tuning current systems proposing instead visionary and innovative change by probing deeply into our beliefs, social practices, and consciousness.

General

Imprint:	JAI Press Inc.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Advances in Public Interest Accounting
Release date:	December 2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Cheryl R Lehman
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	180
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7623-1382-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Accounting > General Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Banking Books > Money & Finance > Banking
LSN:	0-7623-1382-X
Barcode:	9780762313822

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