Growing up: life on the fringe: rebutting groupthink -- Chambers the man -- Historian: past, present, future -- Archivist: classifying, searching for order -- Management educator -- Theoretician: new system of accounting: cocoa -- Practitioner: theoretician-cum-practitioner -- Reformer of...

1. Corporations : soulless, heartless creations? -- 2. Ethos abandoned-- heritage lost : recovering true and fair -- 3. Regulation misplaced -- 4. Mission impossible : auditors on the rack -- 5. Executive snouts in the trough -- 6. Group accounting shenanigans.

Purpose – The aim of this paper is determine the impact financial reporting obligations and, in particular, the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) have on local government management decision making. In turn, this will lead to observations and conclusions regarding the research...