Continuing the search for greater reflectivity regarding accounting's role in society, this volume identifies the many … ways accounting contributes to knowledge creation and the consequences in socio-economic realms. Accounting practice has … held corporations is potential management deception, and thus a raison d'être for accounting and accountability. In this …

accounting thought. He was one of the early accounting educators to express the high purpose of accounting and its importance in … the university, and he was among the early theorists in accounting to argue that accounting needed a coherent, theoretical … on accounting, but also shows how Paton was an active participant in the professional accounting organizations of his day …