Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice.

Abstract

1. Accounting as social and institutional practice: an introduction Peter Miller 2. Early double-entry bookkeeping and the rhetoric of accounting calculation Grahame Thompson 3. Writing, examining, disciplining: the genesis of accounting's modern power Keith Hoskin and Richard Macve 4. Governing the calculable person Peter Miller and Ted O'Leary 5. Accountancy and the First World War Anne Loft 6. Accounting and labour: integrations and disintegrations Philip Bougen 7. The politics of economic measurement: the rise of the 'productivity problem' in the 1940s Jim Tomlinson 8. Corporate control in large British companies: the intersection of management accounting and industrial relations in postwar Britain Peter Armstrong 9. Value added accounting and national economic policy Anthony Hopwood, Stuart Burchell and Colin Clubb 10. Management by accounting Brendan McSweeny 11. Regulating accountancy in the UK: episodes in a changing relationship between the state and the profession David Cooper, Keith Robson, Tony Puxty and Hugh Wilmott 12. The audit society Michael Power