Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 9 Issue 5

A tragedy of understanding; accounting for ontological security

Ian Colville, Laurie McAulay

There is a scene in a play by Euripides in which Medea, the central character, persuades Jason, her husband, to be the unwitting participant in her plot for revenge. This scene…

Accounting/art and the emancipatory project: some reflections

Sonja Gallhofer, Jim Haslam

If we are concerned to develop an emancipatory accounting, and if we are sensitive towards the tendencies to ethnocentrism, chronocentrism and dogmatism, we can potentially gain…

Metaphor in accounting discourse

L. Melissa Walters‐York

The more orthodox versions of our discipline as well as other social sciences are grounded in the common presupposition that science and philosophy be expounded by an especially…

Political arithmetick: accounting for irony in Swift’s A Modest Proposal

Robert Phiddian

Written in 1729, Jonathan Swift’s satirical essay, A Modest Proposal remains a challenge to the logic of current accounting practices. By shining a harshly sceptical light on the…

Enabling accountability in museums

Garry D. Carnegie, Peter W. Wolnizer

Building on our analytical arguments against the valuation of collections for financial reporting purposes. Outlines a set of factual, reliable and interpretable financial and…

Accountability versus artistic development: The case for non‐profit museums and performing arts organizations

Ruth Rentschler, Brad Potter

Nonprofit museums and performing arts organizations have become subject to closer attention in recent years, following the collapse of some seemingly stable cultural…

Art and accountability: the languages of design and managerial control

Peter Armstrong, Anne Tomes

To hard‐pressed managements in competitive product markets, the aesthetic design of products appears to offer an attractive means of creating competitive advantage. In this…