...Deryl Northcott; Bill Doolin Little is known of how accounting is used in the home, or about the potential relevance of business‐like techniques in this domain. This paper reports findings from an exploratory study into the practices of home accountants. Ten cases based on interviews with both...

... recommended for application in German households, home economists have suspected that they were seldom used in practice (Preuße and Hagemeier, 1995). This paper reports the results of an empirical investigation on the use of household accounting systems in Germany. The research commenced in 1993...

... financial history and map past and present relationships, offer a powerful guide to understanding wider issues within marriage and family life. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Homes Accounting Financial planning Social accounting Accountability Accounting has been described as “the language...

...Stephen P. Walker; Sue Llewellyn The paper explores the potentialities for accounting research on the household, individual and family. It is suggested that the home has not been construed in accounting as an arena worthy of academic study due to the preoccupation with concerns in the glamorised...

... they pool, spend and save income. © MCB UP Limited 2000 National accounts Homes Social accounting For most individuals, their access to income and wealth and their consumption decisions are mediated through membership of a household which, in the Oxford English Dictionary sense...

... study of accounting at home is a developing area, analysis has tended so far to rely mainly on Anglo‐Saxon contexts. This paper’s examination of Japanese household accounting practice offers evidence from a very different context. The paper uses the prize schemes to document key changes in household...