JAVANESE LANGUAGE SPEECH LEVEL: A METAPHOR FOR DESCRIBING ACCOUNTING PRACTICES

Abstract

This article argues that accounting practice is complex. The determination to implement a particular type of accounting practice is not a simple task. It is a decision that necessitates thorough considerations involving knowledge, human needs and interests, and situations surrounding the decision maker. The decision process itself thus represents complex activities. To ease understanding of this complexity, this study suggests to use metaphor, Javanese Language Speech Level metaphor. Metaphor, many have argued, helps to highlight and explain the core idea of a study, and to understand the nature, the significance, and the social dimensions of the phenomena being investigated. In sustaining its arguments, this study provides an illustration of some accounting practices that satisfy the appropriateness of Javanese language as metaphor.

Citation

Sawarjuwono, T. (1995), "JAVANESE LANGUAGE SPEECH LEVEL: A METAPHOR FOR DESCRIBING ACCOUNTING PRACTICES", Asian Review of Accounting, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 16-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb060657