A Journey into Accounting ThoughtRoutledge, 2001 M07 12 - 352 pages This book explores the role of accountants in business and society. The final work of Louis Goldberg, Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, it aims to raise awareness of the existence and importance of fundamental issues that are often ignored or by-passed in contemporary discussion of accounting. The sixteen chapters assess exactly wh |
Contents
The unit of operation and the notion of command | |
A dissection of decisions 12 Relevanceand reasonin decisionmaking | |
The accounting equation reconsidered | |
The overworked balance sheet | |
Which way? Challenges and the task ahead | |
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