Purpose – This paper is the third in a trilogy of papers to explore the use of accounting as a fundamental element in …). The paper aims to examine how two accounting performance benchmarks (the operating ratio, and free cash flow) were … deployed to help sustain a rhetoric of post-privatization success. The aptness (and the danger) of accounting language in …

Purpose – The paper sets out to examine the use of accounting as part of the privatization process of a national … railway in Canada. The argument is that proponents of the privatization used accounting strategically to justify and sustain … accounting world thus constructed should not be permitted to pass unchallenged. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores …

Purpose – The paper sets out to examine the use of accounting as part of the privatization process of a national … railway in Canada. The argument is that proponents of the privatization used accounting strategically to justify and sustain … accounting world thus constructed should not be permitted to pass unchallenged. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores …

This paper conducts a wide-ranging and critical interpretative review of the accountability of university accounting … accounting and auditing in the ravaging of universities; and to the effect of the market model on what we teach, how we teach and … of the descriptive meaning of 'university accountability'. Whereas the principal focus is discipline-specific (accounting …