The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication

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Format: Pocket
Antall sider: 266
Språk: Engelsk
Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
Serienavn: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and M
EAN: 9781138363007
Utgivelsesår: 2018

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 communic