Objectivity and the role of history in the development and review of accounting standards
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
ISSN: 0951-3574
Article publication date: 1 August 1996
Abstract
Considers what role history plays in the US accounting standard‐setting process and how this role may be constrained by an emphasis on objectivity and an adherence to a positivistic view of bureaucratic decision making. Explores the role history could play in the development and review of accounting standards and, in particular, how history might contribute to pluralizing the past, problematizing the present and revisioning the future.
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Citation
Young, J.J. and Mouck, T. (1996), "Objectivity and the role of history in the development and review of accounting standards", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 127-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513579610122036
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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