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 …

Purpose – This study aims to examine accounting professionalization in Ethiopia focusing on how the state, occupational … – Accounting professionalization in Ethiopia was initiated by the state to strengthen the country's financial system. Owing to a … change of state ideology to communism in 1974, a strategy of developing accounting professionals as government …

comes from its oversight responsibilities, its understanding and awareness of possible issues and the members' accounting … involvement in resolving contentious accounting issues.  …

culture of an accounting firm to explore how it is implicated in processes of gendering identities of employees within the … sexual countercultures, the paper finds that sexual symbolism in this accounting firm entwines gendered power and domination …, practice and resistance, in complex cultural codes and behaviours. It draws out implications for organisations and accounting …

mirroring of time‐space bound metrics and numbers in management accounting (MA) and other cognitive frames. Design …

Purpose – The paper's aim is to be a satirical reflection of participant experiences at an accounting conference …. Design/methodology/approach – This is a poetic exposition. Findings – The paper highlights the lifecycle of the accounting … of their interactions and observations of an accounting conference. Originality/value – The poem provides a visual …

Purpose – Informed by the work of Laughlin and Booth, this paper aims to analyze the role of accounting and … authority and power of the Church, but also for the essential contributions of “profane” financial and accounting practices to … and accounting and accountability practices. Findings – The documents reveal that secular accounting and accountability …

and social affairs. Although an increasing amount of interest is currently being taken in the role of accounting and …

Accounting has been described as the language of capitalism, a description which may well be valid in developed … capitalist countries. But can accounting in countries with other socio‐economic systems be described in similar terms? The nature … and role of accounting in a developing socialist country is examined through a case study of two construction enterprises …