Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 25 Issue 7

Heterogeneous accountingisation: Accounting and inter‐organisational cooperation in home care services

Kalle Kraus

This paper aims to explore the effects of the increased influence of accounting on core values and practices within the services providing home care in Sweden – a public sector…

Metaphor in Nortel's letters to shareholders 1997‐2006

Merridee Bujaki, Bruce McConomy

This paper seeks to analyze the use of metaphor in the 1997‐2006 letters to shareholders (LTS) of Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel). It aims to assess the prevalence of…

Discharging not‐for‐profit accountability: UK charities and public discourse

Alpa Dhanani, Ciaran Connolly

This paper aims to examine the accountability practices of large United Kingdom (UK) charities through public discourse.

Understanding Syrian accountants' perceptions of, and attitudes towards, social accounting

Rania Kamla, Sonja Gallhofer, Jim Haslam

This paper adds to a focus of the social accounting literature (on perceptions and attitudes to social accounting) by seeking to offer insights into Syrian accountants' attitudes…

Accounting professionalization amidst alternating state ideology in Ethiopia

Dessalegn Getie Mihret, Kieran James, Joseph M. Mula

This study aims to examine accounting professionalization in Ethiopia focusing on how the state, occupational group struggle and transnational accountancy bodies influence the…

All the world's a stage

Vida Botes

The aim is to portray the role that accounts play in society through representation in colour.

Markets

Dianne Dean

The aim is to contrast two fictional responses to the increasing investment into Australian farmland by overseas interests within the context of an aging farming population.

Visible ink: the mark of the future accountant?

Steve Evans