drawing on observations in British and German Brewers, this paper seeks to explore the potential of analitical fecus on the ways in which accounting is combined with other forms of organisational knowledge in talk.

Drawing on instances of operational management in British and German Firms, This paper seeks to contrast different styles of implicating accounting in processes of accountability.

Recently, Hammersley (What's Wrong with Ethnography: Routledge: 1992) and Silverman ( Interpreting Qualitative Data: 1993) have de-emphasised the distinction between qualitative and quantitative research and suggested to integrate them to make social science more valid. I argue that the...

This pape contrasts the involvement of British and German Management Accountants in processes of organisational strategy-making. Analysing ethnographic material, it considers how accounting becomes implicated in formulation of organisational purpose and strategy in the British and German firms...