The Routledge companion to financial accounting theory

Development of financial accounting theory / by Stewart Jones -- History of financial accounting theory in Britain / by Richard Edwards -- Financial accounting and reporting in the United States of America : 1820-2010, toward the sunshine from the shadows / by Gary J Previts and Dale L Flesher -- Evolution of early practice descriptive theory in accounting / by Stewart Jones and Max Aiken -- Accounting and the decision usefulness framework / by Thomas A Lee -- Price variation and inflation accounting research / by RJ Chambers -- Standard setting, politics and change management : a personal perspective / by Sir David Tweedie -- International differences in ifrs adoptions and ifrs practices / by Chris Nobes -- Fair value and the great financial crisis / by Amir Amel-Zadehband Geoff Meeks -- Fair value and ifrs / by Geoff Whittington -- Valuation models : an issue of accounting theory / by Stephan Penman -- Earnings management: implications and controversies / by Joshua Ronen and Varda Yaari -- Agency theory : usefulness and implications for financial accounting / by Alfred Wagenhofer -- Disclosure and the cost of capital : a survey of the theoretical literature / by Jeremy Bertomeu and Edwige Cheynel -- A bayesian understanding of information uncertainty and the cost of capital / by David Johnstone -- Controlling for risk in accounting research / by Nuno Soares and Andrew W. Stark -- Financial measurement and financial markets / by Mike Dempsey and Stewart Jones -- Social theorisation of accounting : challenges to positive research / by Trevor Hopper, Junaid Ashraf, Shahzad Uddin and Danture Wickramasinghe -- True and fair, a business ethos "par excellence" / by Graeme Dean and Frank Clarke -- Accounting for the carbon challenge / by Janek Ratnatunga and Stewart Jones -- Corporate sustainability reporting : theory and practice / by Geoff Frost and Stewart Jones