The Routledge companion to accounting communication
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The Routledge companion to accounting communication
（Routledge companions）（Routledge companions in business, management and accounting）
Routledge, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
One of the prime purposes of accounting is to communicate and yet, to date, this fundamental aspect of the discipline has received relatively little attention. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication represents the first collection of contributions to focus on the power of communication in accounting.
The chapters have a shared aim of addressing the misconception that accounting is a purely technical, number-based discipline by highlighting the use of narrative, visual and technological methods to communicate accounting information. The contents comprise a mixture of reflective overview, stinging critique, technological exposition, clinical analysis and practical advice on topical areas of interest such as:
The miscommunication that preceded the global financial crisis
The failure of sustainability reporting
The development of XBRL
How to cut clutter
With an international coterie of contributors, including a communication theorist, a Big Four practitioner and accounting academics, this volume provides an eclectic array of expert analysis and reflection. The contributors reveal how accounting communications represent, or misrepresent, the financial affairs of entities, thus presenting a state-of-the-art assessment on each of the main facets of this important topic. As such, this book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including: postgraduate students in management and accounting; established researchers in the fields of both accounting and communications; and accounting practitioners.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Landscape 1. The Power of Accounting Communication 2. The Accounting Communication Research Landscape 3. An Historical Perspective from the Work of Chambers Part II: A Variety of Media: Beyond Numbers 4. The Language of Corporate Annual Reports: A Critical Discourse Analysis 5. Visual Perspectives 6. The Role of Metaphor 7. Rhetoric and the Art of Memory 8. Accounting Narratives and Impression Management Part III: Contemporary and Professional Issues 9. Phantasmagoria, Sustain-a-Babbling in Social and Environmental Reporting 10. Accounting Communication inside Organizations 11. Communication Apprehension and Accounting Education 12. Review of US Pedagogic Research and Debates on Writing in Accounting 13. Is XBRL a Killer App? Part IV: Construction of Meaning 14. A Big Four Practitioner View 15. Argument, Audit and Principles-Based Accounting 16. A Critical Perspective
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