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This paper discusses recent UK monetary policies as instances of Galbraith’s ‘innocent frauds’, including the idea that money is a thing rather than a relationship, the fallacy of composition that what is possible for one bank is possible for all banks, and the belief that the money supply...
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of environmental accounting practices, and to analyse some potential determining factors of their use. Design … development of environmental accounting practices in the local public sector. Findings – The degree of development of … environmental accounting practices in Portuguese local entities is low. Organisational size and the degree of development of …
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Health care reform in the industrialized countries, enacted during the last two decades, is entering a new phase of consolidation and further development, now extending to the less developed countries. This marks a significant element of the more general phenomenon commonly referred to as...
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accountants, bookkeepers and others seeking a knowledge of accounting techniques. Also, the gendered male orientation of teaching … institutions and instructional texts in accounting is shown not to have entirely excluded women from acquiring knowledge of the … accounting craft. …
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New evidence is presented about the campaign to secure the admission of women to the accountancy profession in England and Wales during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This evidence, which permits a more gender-encompassing approach, is analysed by reference to Witz's (1992)...
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This is a discussion of the theoretical aspects of accounting as they emerged in India during the Maurya period (c.321 … BC to c.184 BC) in Kautilya's Arthasastra (c.300 BC) - the very first known treatise to deal with accounting aspects in …'s (1988) book, Modern Accounting Concepts in Kautilya's Arthasastra. This book, hardly known in Western accounting circles …
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The homogeneous sections method prescribed by the Plan comptable general (the French national accounting plan) since …. Rimailho's management accounting appears as the strategic tool in a type of corporate regulation involving organizational slack … researchers in accounting and management control. …
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This paper describes the concept and characteristics of financial accounting, in general and particularly, it describes … the concept and characteristics of management accounting, from the perspectives of various local and international authors …. In the first part, the paper presents a brief history of the development of management accounting from the theoretical …
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The recent fi nancial crisis has lead the IASB to settle new reporting standards for fi nancial instruments. The extended ability to measure some debt instruments at amortized cost is associated with a new impairment losses mechanism: Expected Credit Losses. In this paper, after a brief...
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