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The Social Function of Accounts - Reforming Accountancy to Serve Mankind (Hardcover)
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The Social Function of Accounts - Reforming Accountancy to Serve Mankind (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting
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Accountancy as presently practised is tied to the paradigm of
modern financial capitalism with its reliance on market solutions
and the maximization of the firm's profits, which are the
fundamental causes of most these problems. The Social Function of
Accounts argues that accountancy, as currently organized and
practised, is failing society, both in Britain and in the world as
a whole. Examining the current problems afflicting the world:
financial crises and instability, global warming, degradation of
the environment, growing inequality, this book asks the question -
what contribution does accountancy make to the solution of these
problems? The book argues that the accountancy profession does not
serve the public interest, notwithstanding its claim to this
effect. The Social Function of Accounts argues that the moral
responsibility of the accountant is analysed with reference to the
principal theories of ethics continuing that the individual
accountant has a moral responsibility to consider the impact of his
actions on other people and on society as a whole. This
responsibility is then analysed in a series of chapters dealing
with four specific aspects of the matter: Distributive Justice,
Sustainability, Financial reporting & the Accountancy
Profession. Concluding with a call for the accountancy profession
to adopt a new ethic of service to the public The Social Function
of Accounts redraws the boundaries of current accounting literature
and will be vital reading for academics, researchers and policy
makers in accounting and related disciplines.
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