Is the invention of accounting so useful that, as Charlie Munger
once said, "you have to know accounting. It's the language of
practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to
civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice
which of course was once the great commercial power in the
Mediterranean"? (WOO 2013) This positive view on accounting can be
contrasted with an opposing view by Paul Browne that "the recent
[accounting] scandals have brought a new level of attention to the
accounting profession as gatekeepers and custodians of social
interest." (DUM 2013) Contrary to these opposing views (and other
ones as will be discussed in the book), accounting (in relation to
addition and subtraction) are neither possible (or impossible) nor
desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the respective
ideologues (on different sides) would like us to believe. Of
course, this reexamination of different opposing views on
accounting does not mean that the study of addition and subtraction
is useless, or that those fields (related to accounting)-like
bookkeeping, auditing, forensics, info management, finance,
philosophy of accounting, accounting ethics, lean accounting,
mental accounting, environmental audit, creative accounting, carbon
accounting, social accounting, and so on-are unimportant. (WK 2013)
In fact, neither of these extreme views is plausible. Rather, this
book offers an alternative (better) way to understand the future of
accounting in regard to the dialectic relationship between addition
and subtraction-while learning from different approaches in the
literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating
them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other).
More specifically, this book offers a new theory (that is, the
double-sided theory of accounting) to go beyond the existing
approaches in a novel way and is organized in four chapters. This
seminal project will fundamentally change the way that we think
about accounting in relation to addition and subtraction from the
combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture,
with enormous implications for the human future and what I
originally called its "post-human" fate.
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