Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a response to “Analysing accounting discourse: avoiding the ‘fallacy … discourse analysis respecting the focus of accounting and finance” and that the aim of their work was pedagogical. They chose to … accounting texts are read and mobilised by radical activists in pursuance of their emancipatory goals, especially through CDA …

Purpose – This paper adds to a focus of the social accounting literature (on perceptions and attitudes to social … accounting) by seeking to offer insights into Syrian accountants' attitudes towards, and perceptions of, social accounting in … specificities, including Islam. Interviewees perceived a significant role for a social accounting – that would parallel the Western …

analysts favoured usage of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and International Accounting Standards (IASs) by …

It remains the case that surprisingly little research has been done into the mobilising of accounting in media such as … newspapers. Moreover, one can still argue that there is, again surprisingly, a paucity of research into accounting's emancipatory … topics for the critical social analysis of accounting. We seek here to add to and build upon the work that has been done in …