The Routledge Companion To Accounting Communication (routledge Companions In Business, Management And Accounting)

One of the prime purposes of accounting is to communicate and yet, to date, this fundamental aspect of the discipline has received relatively little attention. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication represents the first collection of contributions to focus on the power of communication in accounting. The chapters have a shared aim of addressing the misconception that accounting is a purely technical, number-based discipline by highlighting the use of narrative, visual and technological methods to communicate accounting information. The contents comprise a mixture of reflective overview, stinging critique, technological exposition, clinical analysis and practical advice on topical areas of interest such as: The miscommunication that preceded the global financial crisis. The failure of sustainability reporting. The development of XBRL. How to cut clutter. With an international coterie of contributors, including a communication theorist, a Big Four practitioner and accounting academics, this volume provides an eclectic array of expert analysis and reflection. The contributors reveal how accounting communications represent, or misrepresent, the financial affairs of entities, thus presenting a state-of-the-art assessment on each of the main facets of this important topic. As such, this book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including: postgraduate students in management and accounting; established researchers in the fields of both accounting and communications; and accounting practitioners.--Résumé de l'éditeur The landscape -- The power of accounting communication / Lisa Jack, Jane Davison and Russell Craig The Accounting Communication Research Landscape / Lee Parker -- An historical perspective from the work of chambers / Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean and John Richard Edwards -- A variety of media : beyond numbers -- The language of corporate annual reports : a critical discourse analysis / Theo van Leeuwen -- Visual perspectives / Jane Davison -- The role of metaphor / Joel Amernic -- Rhetoric and the art of memory / Paolo Quattrone -- Accounting narratives and impression management / Niamh Brennan and Doris Merkl-Davies -- Contemporary and professional issues -- Phantasmagoria, sustain-a-babbling in social and environmental reporting / Markus Milne -- Accounting communication inside organizations / Lisa Jack -- Communication apprehension and accounting education / Trevor Hassall, José L. Arquero, John Joyce and José M. González -- Review of us pedagogic research and debates on writing in accounting / Sue Ravenscroft and Abhi Rao -- Is XBRL a killer app? / Joanne Locke -- Construction of meaning -- A big four practitioner view / John Hitchins and Laura Taylor -- Argument, audit and principles-based accounting / Wally Smieliauskas -- A critical perspective / Christine Cooper.