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Account, Accounting, Accountability

Profession, 2002
80 Before I discuss what it means to work in and chair an English department in a University of Excellence, I need to clarify what a university dedicated to excellence means, at least in my experience. For four years, I chaired an English department on a campus with a mission to be excellent (Strategic, “Goal #1”). Then, as a dean in Minnesota for four
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Accounting and Accountancy

2021
In this chapter, different definitions of accountancy are discussed. The broader meaning of accountancy comparing to accounting is emphasized. The difference between accountancy and accounting in an organization is deeply explained. To do this, the partial system approach is used.
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Accounting and Accountability for NGOs

2012
The perspectives of the expert contributors reflect the strong growth of research on the topic, as accounting is increasingly recognised as an important factor in development. The book draws commentary and analyses together to inform future research, practice and policy and raises awareness of the actual and potential role of accounting in formulating ...
Unerman, J., O'Dwyer, Brendan
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Accounting, performance management systems and accountability changes in knowledge-intensive public organizations

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize insights from previous accounting, performance measurement (PM) and accountability research into the rapidly emerging field of knowledge-intensive public organizations (KIPOs).
G. Grossi   +3 more
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Accounting for killing: Accountability for death

Accounting History, 2012
Accounting and the conscious secretive killing of humans are rarely concurrently examined in the contemporary and historical literature. Based on examinations of a rare and formerly highly secretive surviving written record found in the Venice State Archive, and other surviving primary records, as well as secondary sources, this novel study outlines ...
SARGIACOMO, MASSIMO   +2 more
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Trust for accounting and accounting for trust

Management Accounting Research, 2006
Abstract This paper combines insights from the sociology of knowledge and the emerging practice-based literature on learning and knowing to extend the institutional framework of accounting change developed by Burns and Scapens [Burns, J., Scapens, R.W., 2000. Conceptualising management accounting change: an institutional framework. Manage. Acc. Res.,
Angelo Riccaboni   +3 more
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School Accountability

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, 2018
Accountability has always been deemed a necessity for schools to fulfill their purpose in society. Because of the nature of their operational core, this has for a long time been based on bureaucratic and professional accountability in most countries.
Esther Dominique Klein
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ACCOUNTING THE LIMITS OF ACCOUNTING [PDF]

open access: possibleMeasuring Business Excellence, 1997
How to assess the performance of others has been an exercise at the heart of managerial ambitions for much of this century. More recently it has been an insistent demand driving the growth of performance indicators in the UK's public sector. But the accountancy‐based solutions currently favoured place unrealistic expectations on what they can deliver.
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Accounting and accountability

2020
This chapter examines the state of accountability as a concept elaborated in theological statements. It also examines how such commitments to accountability as a core value are manifest in practices. Another criticism that Carette makes of Foucault is that his focus on the confessional as a practice inducing accountability is that it causes him to ...
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An accountability account: A review and synthesis of the theoretical and empirical research on felt accountability

, 2017
Summary Accountability is a fundamental element of all societies and the organizations that operate within them. This paper focuses on the individual-level accountability concept of felt accountability (also referred to in the literature as simply ...
A. Hall, Dwight D. Frink, M. Buckley
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