Immediately after WWII, unlike statisticians' reforms, accountants failed to establish the Cabinet-controlled Accounting Committee and Accounting Law which were originally envisaged as the key to successful "Accountics": the management of the socio-economy through standardized accounting (Part...

Despite the fact that the concept of the "macroeconomy" first emerged after the 1930s, only becoming prevalent after the 1950s, macroeconomic terms are ubiquitous today. Historians refer to the Keynesian Revolution as the origin of the macroeconomic revolution. This paper addresses the...

This is a case study of the dissemination of internationally standardized accounting to a nation where standardized accounting was hitherto only loosely practised under domestic conditions. Soon after World War II, a growing interest in socio-economic management, rather than microeconomic or...

lsquo;Why discuss accounting in Socio-Economic Review?' lsquo;Because accounting constructs socio-economic reality.' lsquo;How?!' lsquo;Theoretically speaking, there should be many ways of doing ldquo;account-ingrdquo; - an act of explaining business realities to multiple stakeholders of...

The new accounting research has been devoted to illuminating the social and constitutive aspects of accounting. This has been done, however, in many cases, in the setting of micro managerial accounting. The effects of financial and macroeconomic accounting on modern economic society have not...

Within the last decade, international accounting, as a common language of business and a mode of governance, has come to be widely disseminated in China, and has become an indispensable infrastructure of its socio-economy. This diffusion of accounting was propagated as a national strategy for...