.... The ideas are communicated by the sharing of experiences through myth and storytelling. Design/methodology/approach An alternative lens for understanding the giving of accounts is proposed, drawing on earlier feminist accounting literature as well as storytelling and myth. Findings Including...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Social environment Audit reports Language Myths Ideologies are historical facts which must be combated and their nature as instruments of domination revealed … in order to make the governed intellectually independent of the governing (Gramsci...

... on a suggested philosophical reading of sacred vestiges within financial reporting, and to add to the interpretation of visual images within financial reporting. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Myths Financial reporting Religion Philosophy The sacred and accounting, mother...

...Lars‐Eric Bergevarn; Olov Olson The article deals with the development of Swedish municipal accounting since the middle of the last century to the present time. The article focuses on reforms of accounting norms on one hand and on myths of accounting on the other. The main conclusions...