Smoke & Mirrors, Inc. : accounting for capitalism /
Beginning with the story of the fictional company Smoke & Mirrors Inc., Véron and his coauthors provide a brief history of accounting's emergence and its key concepts and practices. They then shift their focus to the political economy of the various actors involved in the preparation, audi...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Cornell studies in money
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Table of Contents:
- The common language of capitalism
- "Creative accounting" and the fairness conundrum
- Standard-setting and its challenges
- Capitalism in flux
- Auditors under scrutiny
- Power to the investors?
- Regulators at the crossroads.