Strategizing Management Accounting - 9781138783546

Taylor & Francis

Strategizing Management AccountingLiberal Origins and Neoliberal Trends\nAuthor(s): Chandana Alawattage, Danture Wickramasinghe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138783546, 978-1138783546\nSynopsis\nThe theory and practice of management accounting should be seen within the context of varieties of global capitalism, to appreciate its role as a 'calculative technology of capitalism' which is practiced on factory floors, corporate boards, computer networks, spreadsheets, and so forth. This new textbook is the first to introduce the field from a rounded social science perspective.\n\nStrategizing Management Accounting offers a theoretical discussion on management accountings strategic orientation by accommodating two interrelated lines of analyses, from historical and contemporary perspectives. The book illustrates how 'new management accounting' has evolved into the form in which it exists today in its neoliberal con.