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dc.contributor.authorBuys, Pieter Willem
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-29T06:56:56Z
dc.date.available2013-01-29T06:56:56Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationBuys, P.W. 2011. Legitimacy lost: accountancy's predicament. Studia universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Philosophia, 56(1):3-14. [http://www.studia.ubbcluj.ro/serii/philosophia/index_en.html]en_US
dc.identifier.issn2065-9407 (Online)
dc.identifier.issn1221-8138
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/7983
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.studia.ubbcluj.ro/serii/philosophia/index_en.html
dc.description.abstractThe objectives and purpose of accounting theory as being promulgated by key global accounting regulators seem to downplay accounting's stewardship function in favour of providing information to specific categories of user-groups. The Metatheoretical assumptions upon which modern-day accounting theory is based, especially seen against the ethical failures of recent corporate history and accounting's role therein, raise several philosophical questions regarding the legitimacy of 21st century accountancy. In this article I will reflect upon on four key issues in respect of accounting theory, namely i) key ethical aspects, ii) a philosophical foundation, iii) the value concept and iv) decision-usefulness, as pertaining to the legitimacy of accounting in order to re-focus the paradigm context of the accounting sciences of the modern era.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyaien_US
dc.subjectAccounting theoryen_US
dc.subjectaccounting philosophyen_US
dc.subjectbusiness ethicsen_US
dc.subjectvalue concepten_US
dc.subjectdecision-usefulnessen_US
dc.titleLegitimacy lost: accountancy's predicamenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.researchID10127100 - Buys, Pieter Willem


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