David J. Cooper – författare

Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society. Indeed, some argue that its practices are fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. We can see accounting everywhere: in organizations where budgeting, investing, costing, and performance appraisal rely on accounting practices; in financial and other audits; in corporate scandals and financial reporting and regulation; in corporate governance, risk management,and accountability, and in the corresponding growth and influence of the accounting profession. Accounting, too, is an important part of the curriculum and research of business and management schools, the fastest growing sector in higher education.This growth is largely a phenomenon of the last 50 years or so. Prior to that, accounting was seen mainly as a mundane, technical,bookkeeping exercise (and some still share that naive view). The growth in accounting has demanded a corresponding engagement by scholars to examine and highlight the important behavioural, organizational, institutional, and social dimensions of accounting. Pioneering work by accounting researchers and social scientists more generally has persuasively demonstrated to a wider social science, professional, management, and policy audience how many aspects of life are indeed constituted, to animportant extent, through the calculative practices of accounting.Anthony Hopwood, to whom this book is dedicated, has been a leading figure in this endeavour, which has effectively defined accounting as a distinctive field of research in the social sciences. The book brings together the work of leading international accounting academics and social scientists, and demonstrates the scope, vitality, and insights of contemporary scholarship in and on accounting and auditing.

Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society. Indeed, some argue that its practices are fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. We can see accounting everywhere: in organizations where budgeting, investing, costing, and performance appraisal rely on accounting practices; in financial and other audits; in corporate scandals and financial reporting and regulation; in corporate governance, risk management,and accountability, and in the corresponding growth and influence of the accounting profession. Accounting, too, is an important part of the curriculum and research of business and management schools, the fastest growing sector in higher education.This growth is largely a phenomenon of the last 50 years or so. Prior to that, accounting was seen mainly as a mundane, technical,bookkeeping exercise (and some still share that naive view). The growth in accounting has demanded a corresponding engagement by scholars to examine and highlight the important behavioural, organizational, institutional, and social dimensions of accounting. Pioneering work by accounting researchers and social scientists more generally has persuasively demonstrated to a wider social science, professional, management, and policy audience how many aspects of life are indeed constituted, to animportant extent, through the calculative practices of accounting.Anthony Hopwood, to whom this book is dedicated, has been a leading figure in this endeavour, which has effectively defined accounting as a distinctive field of research in the social sciences. The book brings together the work of leading international accounting academics and social scientists, and demonstrates the scope, vitality, and insights of contemporary scholarship in and on accounting and auditing.

Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society. Indeed, some argue that its practices are fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. We can see accounting everywhere: in organizations where budgeting, investing, costing, and performance appraisal rely on accounting practices; in financial and other audits; in corporate scandals and financial reporting and regulation; in corporate governance, risk management, and accountability, and in the corresponding growth and influence of the accounting profession. Accounting, too, is an important part of the curriculum and research of business and management schools, the fastest growing sector in higher education.This growth is largely a phenomenon of the last 50 years or so. Prior to that, accounting was seen mainly as a mundane, technical, bookkeeping exercise (and some still share that naive view). The growth in accounting has demanded a corresponding engagement by scholars to examine and highlight the important behavioural, organizational, institutional, and social dimensions of accounting. Pioneering work by accounting researchers and social scientists more generally has persuasively demonstrated to a wider social science, professional, management, and policy audience how many aspects of life are indeed constituted, to an important extent, through the calculative practices of accounting.Anthony Hopwood, to whom this book is dedicated, has been a leading figure in this endeavour, which has effectively defined accounting as a distinctive field of research in the social sciences. The book brings together the work of leading international accounting academics and social scientists, and demonstrates the scope, vitality, and insights of contemporary scholarship in and on accounting and auditing.

Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society. Indeed, some argue that its practices are fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. We can see accounting everywhere: in organizations where budgeting, investing, costing, and performance appraisal rely on accounting practices; in financial and other audits; in corporate scandals and financial reporting and regulation; in corporate governance, risk management, and accountability, and in the corresponding growth and influence of the accounting profession. Accounting, too, is an important part of the curriculum and research of business and management schools, the fastest growing sector in higher education.This growth is largely a phenomenon of the last 50 years or so. Prior to that, accounting was seen mainly as a mundane, technical, bookkeeping exercise (and some still share that naive view). The growth in accounting has demanded a corresponding engagement by scholars to examine and highlight the important behavioural, organizational, institutional, and social dimensions of accounting. Pioneering work by accounting researchers and social scientists more generally has persuasively demonstrated to a wider social science, professional, management, and policy audience how many aspects of life are indeed constituted, to an important extent, through the calculative practices of accounting.Anthony Hopwood, to whom this book is dedicated, was a leading figure in this endeavour, which has effectively defined accounting as a distinctive field of research in the social sciences. The book brings together the work of leading international accounting academics and social scientists, and demonstrates the scope, vitality, and insights of contemporary scholarship in and on accounting and auditing.

In a city alive with color, life and love can be both fleeting and fragile.Seeking a fresh start in Guadalajara, David hopes to leave his troubled past behind. Amidst the bustling streets, he forms a bond with a loyal friend living with HIV—a constant reminder of life's delicate balance. But everything changes when he meets a charismatic male stripper, captivating yet tormented by addiction and the same relentless illness.Compelled by compassion, David becomes a pillar of support, navigating the complexities of friendship, love, and the heartbreaking realities of addiction. Yet some battles cannot be won, and despite his unwavering devotion, tragedy strikes, leaving David to confront loss, grief, and the fragility of human connection.This poignant, heartrending story explores love, loyalty, and the bittersweet truth that sometimes caring isn't enough.

They were lovers. They were accomplices. Together, they became two of Britain's most notorious murderers.Ian Brady and Myra Hindley have become almost inseparable from the story of the Moors Murders. Yet behind the crimes was a disturbing relationship built on attraction, obsession, manipulation and violence.What drew Myra Hindley to Ian Brady? How did their relationship develop from romance into something far darker? And how did two seemingly ordinary people become involved in crimes that would horrify a nation?The Devil Knows looks beyond the headlines to examine the relationship between Brady and Hindley—their meeting, their growing obsession with one another, and the dark path that ultimately led them to the murders.More than sixty years later, the Moors Murders remain one of the darkest chapters in British criminal history.But at the centre of this story lies a disturbing question:What was it about their relationship that allowed them to descend so far into darkness?

Jake Thomas came to Wales looking for a story.He found one that refused to let him leave.With a crushing deadline and an empty page waiting for him, the successful novelist takes a wrong turn on a lonely country road and stumbles across a remote inn. There he hears a chilling tale about an abandoned house on a nearby hill — a place the locals avoid and speak of only in whispers. According to legend, anyone who enters the house is never seen again.Jake visits the house out of curiosity.What he finds inside is unsettling, but he leaves convinced the stories are nothing more than superstition.Then, on the drive back to the inn, his car skids off the road and plunges into a ravine.When Jake opens his eyes, he is back inside the house.The doors are locked. The rooms seem to change when he is not looking. Shadows move in the corners, and unseen voices know things they should not know. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot escape.And sometimes the dead are the last to know.