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The Relationship Between Management And Financial Accounting As Professions And Technologies Of Practice, Alan J. Richardson
The Relationship Between Management And Financial Accounting As Professions And Technologies Of Practice, Alan J. Richardson
Odette School of Business Publications
This Chapter explores the suggestion to unify financial and management accounting both as professions and technologies of practice. I argue that drift in professional jurisdictions and cognitive domains encourages consolidation of the profession but there remain distinct social roles for each information technology. The challenge for the profession is to maintain the integrity of management accounting as a technology of practice in the face of renewed professional hegemony of financial accounting.