The Construction of Faith in Accounting: The United Nation’s Decision to Adopt IPSAS

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Abstract

This paper has sought to explore how generic globalized accounting ideas and instruments come to be translated into a local solution at the United Nations (UN) in response to the oil-for-food scandal. To do so, we analysed the official, published, rationales for reform and considered the role of key protagonists within the reform process. A number of themes emerged from the analysis. We argue that the process of instilling faith in accounting at the UN relies heavily on the clever and varying use of an extrapolative logic derived from a master-idea of the need to ‘do more accounting’ to persuade reformers to take on particular ideas and instruments of accounting. The work of propagating such logic was facilitated by a closed system of protagonists who form a tight interlocking network.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato9 jul. 2014
Antal sider24
StatusUdgivet - 9 jul. 2014
Begivenhed2014 Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference - Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Canada
Varighed: 7 jul. 20149 jul. 2014
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Konference2014 Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference
LokationSchulich School of Business
Land/OmrådeCanada
ByToronto
Periode07/07/201409/07/2014
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