This article looks at the Enron affair in terms of what investors and experts fail to take into account to being able to predict Enron collapse. The authors show how analysts could have predicted Enron's difficulties in view of the incoherence observed in its strategic decisions, from the...

This article looks at the Enron affair in terms of what investors and experts fail to take into account to being able to predict Enron collapse. The authors show how analysts could have predicted Enron's difficulties in view of the incoherence observed in its strategic decisions, from the...

This paper offers a new foundation for investigating accounting policy in organizations. After recalling some characteristics illustrating the deficiency of Positive Accounting Theory (PAT) as a comprehensive, contextual and holistic analysis of accounting policy in organizations, positive...

Associated with neo-liberalism, shareholder value is at the origin of the financialization of the economy and the current financial crisis. Indoctrinated by neoliberal economics, accountants set themselves the objective of ensuring the efficient functioning of financial markets instead of...

This paper critically examines the basic tenets of positive accounting theory. We subject the language of Watts and Zimmerman’s 1986 definition of positive accounting theory to the activity of proof reading, in accordance with Derrida’s concept of deconstruction. We highlight traces of...