Purpose – This paper is the third in a trilogy of papers to explore the use of accounting as a fundamental element in …). The paper aims to examine how two accounting performance benchmarks (the operating ratio, and free cash flow) were … deployed to help sustain a rhetoric of post-privatization success. The aptness (and the danger) of accounting language in …

Purpose – The paper sets out to examine the use of accounting as part of the privatization process of a national … railway in Canada. The argument is that proponents of the privatization used accounting strategically to justify and sustain … accounting world thus constructed should not be permitted to pass unchallenged. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores …

Mississauga (UTM) with intermediate level undergraduate financial accounting students. The programme focused on improving students …

Purpose – The paper sets out to examine the use of accounting as part of the privatization process of a national … railway in Canada. The argument is that proponents of the privatization used accounting strategically to justify and sustain … accounting world thus constructed should not be permitted to pass unchallenged. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores …