Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 -- The Role of Accounting as an Information System -- 1. Environment and Theoretical Structure of Financial Accounting -- 2. Review of the Accounting Process -- 3. The Balance Sheet and Financial Disclosures -- 4. The Income Statement, Comprehensive...

Notes on editors -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Researching everyday accounting practice : epistemological debate / Mark A. Covaleski, Kathryn Haynes, Zahirul Hoque and Lee D. Parker -- Worldviews and paradigms -- Social constructionist research in accounting : a...

Acknowledgments -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- The invisible hand -- Marx's theory of value and accounting -- Accounting and the production of capital -- An accounting critique of marxist economics -- Marx's accounting solution to the "transformation problem" -- Fixed...

Development of financial accounting theory / by Stewart Jones -- History of financial accounting theory in Britain / by Richard Edwards -- Financial accounting and reporting in the United States of America : 1820-2010, toward the sunshine from the shadows / by Gary J Previts and Dale L Flesher...