The economic problem -- No wealth but life : a brief history of the new economics -- Measurement : why is an apparently poor Pacific island hit the top of the happy planet index? -- Money : why did China pay for the Iraq War? -- Markets : why has London traffic always travelled at 12mph? -- Life...

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) were developed in advanced economies, but are increasingly being applied in emergent economies, potentially ignoring considerations of whether IFRS are appropriate or relevant to such economies. This case study examines the relevance and...

Presents a framework and methodology of accounting for the sustainable corporation which has the familiar accounting objectives of assessing and reporting corporate performance but that is where the similarities end. Instead of conceiving of the corporation in economic terms, this account is...

This paper draws upon the concepts of organizational legitimacy, political economy of accounting and agency theory, and subsequently combines these with stakeholder analysis, in an attempt to analyse the attitudes towards their perceived social responsibility on the part of the executives of a...

A paper published by one of the authors (Woodward and Squires, 1996), described a situation where the accounting information system used by a geographically-remote project manager to report progress on a project to his headquarters proved inadequate for that task. The inadequacy was particularly...

Previous applications of the life cycle costing concept have approached the task as a mere extension of ‘conventional’ discounted cash flow. So while attempts have been made to identify all relevant variables over the entire lifespan of proposed capital investments, and subsequently...

Nick Drager, David Woodward, Robert Beaglehole and Debra Lipson present an analytical framework for considering the effects of globalization on the health of the poor and put emphasis on the indirect effects of globalization operating through the macro-economy, household income and other...