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Cost accounting and manufacturing control within capitalist epochs

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posted on 2023-06-07, 19:11 authored by Trevor Hopper
The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline’s academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned Sarbanes-Oxley and the world-wide recession. Certain contemporary issues have long histories, such as the difficulties encountered by women to break the glass ceiling in public accounting, and the suffering of indigenous peoples under the imperialistic yoke. Other episodes in accounting’s long history are seemingly more divorced from the present, but in reality they all have contemporary significance. Slavery in the New World, for example, although abolished more than a century ago, is still rampant in parts of the world, albeit less formally. Critical accounting historians feel it a duty to harken to the "suppressed voices" of the past, those groups of people who had no access to an accounting record – women, persons of color, indigenous populations, alienated proletarians, victims of governmental incompetence and graft, and many voiceless others.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Routledge

Page range

129-143

Pages

274.0

Book title

Critical histories of accounting: sinister inscriptions of the modern era

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9780415886703

Series

Routledge new works in accounting history

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  • Business and Management Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Stephen P Walker, Warwick Funnell, Richard K Fleischman

Legacy Posted Date

2013-02-08

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