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Author Leung, David

Title Inside Accounting : the Sociology of Financial Reporting and Auditing
Published Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (159 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Finitism -- Fox river -- Creating numbers -- Software -- The year end accounts -- The audit -- The truth -- Conclusion
Summary Inside Accounting examines how accountants and non-accounting managers construct their company's earnings. As well as considering the accounting structure such as budgeting and financial control, David Leung looks at how people prepare for and facilitate the audit, and how a person's professional experience influences their view of the process and its results. His research into the theory and practice of accounting will be of interest to professionals and academics in the field, and to sociologists and academic researchers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Accounting -- Practice
Accounting -- Decision making
Accounting -- Case studies
Corporate culture.
Organizational Culture
Accounting
Accounting -- Decision making
Accounting -- Practice
Corporate culture
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781409420507
1409420507