Purpose – This paper aims to argue that enterprise culture is producing negative effects. Companies and major accountancy firms are increasingly willing to increase their profits through indulgence in price fixing, tax avoidance/evasion, bribery, corruption, money laundering and practices that...

Purpose – To stimulate debates about the creation of corporate governance mechanisms and processes which would help to secure an equitable distribution of income and wealth for workers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds on a political economy of income and wealth inequalities....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to broaden discussions about the role of the public sphere in broadening social choices, with particular focus on accountancy magazines and national press in particular. Design/methodology/approach – In replying to the commentary appearing in this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to stimulate debates about contemporary auditing practices. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds a generalised theory of auditing to pose some questions about the basic auditing model, notions of audit quality and the possibility that some...

In accounting discourses, the going concern concept is considered to be 'fundamental' yet in auditing it is considered to be 'material but not fundamental'. Like all other social concepts and practices, 'going concern' is multi-accented and its meanings cannot be stabilized. Against such a...