... with passionate stakeholder relationships, provides a novel context within which to explore the application of emancipatory accounting. Practical implications This study provides guidance to professional football clubs on how best to provide authentic accountability to supporters and the mutual benefits...

... forms of account by focusing on a report produced by an interested party and includes a novel use of the emancipatory accounting theoretical lens to investigate this historic report. Fumifugium challenged the lack of accountability of businesses in ways similar to present-day campaigns...

...) and Brown and Tregidga (2017) conceptual work on Rancière. It also contributes more broadly to emancipatory accounting research by identifying radical possibilities for workers' accounting to bring about change. However, studies of accounting's role in emancipatory expectations at work provide mixed...

... economic interests over the social, cultural and environmental ones. As a result of these contributions, even if the counter-accounts were subjective, this study claims that they form a good basis for the development of emancipatory accounting. Research limitations/implications – Limitations...