TY - CHAP
T1 - Encountering accounting in society
AU - Vollmer, Hendrik
AU - Bigoni, Michele
AU - Brackley, James
AU - Closs-Davies, Sara
AU - Cuckston, Thomas
AU - Denedo, Mercy
AU - Ejiogu, Amanze
AU - Frandsen, Ann Christine
AU - Ghio, Alessandro
AU - Hoskin, Keith
AU - McBride, Karen
AU - Russell, Shona
AU - Shah, Atul K.
AU - Tuck, Penelope
AU - van Helden, Jan
PY - 2024/5/3
Y1 - 2024/5/3
N2 - In this concluding chapter to the Handbook of Accounting in Society, we reflect on the collective effort of the contributors. Taken together, our contributions present a manifestation of accounting realism, a concern with how and where accounting actually takes place in society. As we explore the diverse ways in which accounting shapes organizations and institutions, and is shaped by them in turn, we encounter diverse forms of accounting and a diversity of accountants. Among the accountants, professionally trained and accredited practitioners seem all but outweighed by accounting practitioners who arrive at their accountings as activists, scientists, nurses, doctors, or carers, or in their humble role es taxpayers. This diversity of accountants, their accounts and accountings offers a basis for reforming the accounting profession, for redeveloping accounting education, and for leveraging accounting for the common good - for changing accounting in society into an accounting for society.
AB - In this concluding chapter to the Handbook of Accounting in Society, we reflect on the collective effort of the contributors. Taken together, our contributions present a manifestation of accounting realism, a concern with how and where accounting actually takes place in society. As we explore the diverse ways in which accounting shapes organizations and institutions, and is shaped by them in turn, we encounter diverse forms of accounting and a diversity of accountants. Among the accountants, professionally trained and accredited practitioners seem all but outweighed by accounting practitioners who arrive at their accountings as activists, scientists, nurses, doctors, or carers, or in their humble role es taxpayers. This diversity of accountants, their accounts and accountings offers a basis for reforming the accounting profession, for redeveloping accounting education, and for leveraging accounting for the common good - for changing accounting in society into an accounting for society.
KW - Accounting in society
KW - Accounting realism
KW - Accounting education
KW - Counter accounting
KW - Accounting profession
KW - Anthropocene
UR - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803922003
UR - https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?isn=9781803921990&rn=1
U2 - 10.4337/9781803922003.00049
DO - 10.4337/9781803922003.00049
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85197103985
SN - 9781803921990
T3 - Research handbooks on accounting
SP - 446
EP - 458
BT - Handbook of accounting in society
A2 - Vollmer, Hendrik
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
CY - Cheltenham
ER -