| Description |
xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in management ; 24 |
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Cambridge studies in management ; 24
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Accounting as social and institutional practice: an introduction Peter Miller -- 2. Early double-entry bookkeeping and the rhetoric of accounting calculation Grahame Thompson -- 3. Writing, examining, disciplining: the genesis of accounting's modern power Keith Hoskin and Richard Macve -- 4. Governing the calculable person Peter Miller and Ted O'Leary -- 5. Accountancy and the First World War Anne Loft -- 6. Accounting and labour: integrations and disintegrations Philip Bougen -- 7. The politics of economic measurement: the rise of the 'productivity problem' in the 1940s Jim Tomlinson -- 8. Corporate control in large British companies: the intersection of management accounting and industrial relations in postwar Britain Peter Armstrong -- 9. Value added accounting and national economic policy Anthony Hopwood, Stuart Burchell and Colin Clubb -- 10. Management by accounting Brendan McSweeny -- 11. Regulating accountancy in the UK: episodes in a changing relationship between the state and the profession David Cooper, Keith Robson, Tony Puxty and Hugh Wilmott -- 12. The audit society Michael Power |
| Analysis |
Accountancy |
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Accountancy |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Accounting -- Social aspects.
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Managerial accounting.
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| Author |
Hopwood, Anthony G.
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Miller, Peter, 1954-
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| LC no. |
93045992 |
| ISBN |
0521390923 |
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0521469651 (paperback) |
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