Philosophical perspectives on accounting
Subtitle: essays in honour of Edward Stamp
By: edited by M.J. Mumford and K.V. Peasnell.
Contributors: Stamp, Edward.; Mumford, Michael J.; Peasnell, K. V.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Accounting.; Corporations -- Accounting.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ken Peasnell; title: Users, characteristics and standards / Michael J. Mumford; title: Professional judgement and professional standards / Alister K. Mason; title: On the idea of a conceptual framework for financial reporting / Michael K. Power; title: On the methodology of constructing a conceptual framework for financial accounting / Simon Archer; title: The subject matters of accounting / Robert R. Sterling; title: Accounting and language / Colin Lyas; title: Paradigms, research traditions and theory nets of accounting / Richard Mattessich; title: Achieving scientific knowledge, the rationality of scientific method / R. Murray Lindsay; title: In search of reality / Philip Stamp.