Binding: Paperback
Description: The theory and practice of management accounting should be seen within the context of varieties of global capitalism to appreciate its role as a 'calculative technology of capitalism which is practiced on factory floors corporate boards computer networks spreadsheets and so forth. This new textbook is the first to introduce the field from a rounded social science perspective. Strategizing Management Accounting offers a theoretical discussion on management accounting's strategic orientation by accommodating two interrelated lines of analyses from historical and contemporary perspectives. The book illustrates how 'new management accounting has evolved into the form in which it exists today in its neoliberal context and how those new management accounting practices have become manifestos for the managers as calculative technologies of decision making performance management control corporate governance as well as global governance and development within various forms of organizations across the globe. Each chapter draws on Foucauldian analysis of biopolitics explaining how neoliberal market logic informs a set of strategies and mechanisms through which various social entities and discourses are made governable by considering them as biopolitical entities of global governance. Written by two recognized accounting experts this book is vital reading for all students of management accounting and will also be a useful supplementary resource for those wanting to understand and research accounting's vital role in contemporary society.
Title: Strategizing Management Accounting Liberal Origins And Neoliberal Trends
Author(s): Wickramasinghe Danture
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138783553
Pages: 404 Pages, 23 Tables, Black And White; 45 Line Drawings, Black And White; 45 Illustrations, Black An
Publication Date: 9/24/2018
Category: Management Accounting & Bookkeeping