TY - BOOK AU - Lennon,Niels Joseph TI - Accounting, representation and responsibility: Deleuze and Guattari perspectives T2 - Routledge focus on accounting and auditing SN - 9780367136024 AV - HF5625 .L46 2021 U1 - 657.01 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Accounting KW - Philosophy KW - Decision making KW - Responsibility accounting KW - Managerial accounting KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Managerial KW - bisacsh KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior N2 - "In organizations, accounting produces organizational knowledge that affect decision making and managerial action. Companies placing importance on shareholder value sometimes tend to elevate accounting to a higher truth criterion for justifying managerial actions. Yet, the nature of accounting renders it difficult to argue that accounting information necessarily produce a better basis for decision making than arguments which are not based on accounting. This is because, as previous research has also argued, accounting counts some things but omits many others, while managers are accountable for much more than what accounting actually counts. Using a theoretical apparatus from Deleuze & Guattarí, this book illustrates that accounting-based actions such as making management decisions, maintaining organisational responsibility and hierarchical control, are manifestations of the ways in which accounting is composed. This concise introduction will be invaluable for researchers and advanced students of management accounting exploring responsibility accounting and accountability"-- UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367136024 UR - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf ER -