Discounted-utilitarian welfare, the commonest social objective studied by economists, is the basis for the theory of green accounting in terms of social utility. Sustainability is a different type of social objective. Consequently, green accounting as derived in many empirical models is not appropriate for studying sustainability. Maximin is a consistent foundation for the analysis of sustainab...

The application of Marxist analysis in accounting has been seriously hampered by an economistic specter, promulgated even by those who profess to be " Marxists ". One consequence for accounting research has been a regression into culturalist, linguistic, and relativistic analysis, that putatively eschew the " Grand Narratives " of critical social analysis. Using two recent contributions to the ...

American Accounting Association (AAA). The association provides many resources for accounting educators. Publications include a quarterly electronic journal, Issues in Accounting Education [1], and a quarterly archived newsletter, Accounting Education News [2]. A Faculty Development section http://aaahq.org/facdev.cfm [3] links to resources in teaching, research/scholarship, practice, and servi...

Nowadays a major portion of our information about various subjects is obtained through images .This study tries to look at corporates' financial reports with a new perspective. Using images together with numbers and figures, the study used a new way to present concepts related to CSR[i] along with financial information. To this aim, CSR was experimentally examined through four hypotheses among ...

Behavioral accounting includes psychological findings into accounting theory to anticipate information recipients’ behavior – it deals with the question of how to design the accounting system to persuade recipients to make economically reasonable decisions. So what about the psychological aspects of the behavior of the deliverers of accounting information? A common area of failure in accounting...