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Accounting and development in Africa
Critical Perspectives on Accounting ( IF 5.538 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 , DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2020.102280
Philippe J.C. Lassou , Trevor Hopper , Collins Ntim

Despite accounting being often seen as a crucial ingredient in economic and social development for African countries with pressing needs to meet development challenges (such as alleviating poverty, improving sanitation and public infrastructures, increasing literacy, and improving health), research on African accounting and development is often neglected and relegated to the periphery, especially in leading accounting journals. This Special Issue features a variety of works – theoretically, methodologically, and empirically spanning a wide range of countries across Africa, seeking to redress this and provide avenues and questions for further reflection and future research. In particular, the articles in this Special Issue document the role of accounting in Africa across the private, public and third sectors, and how the role is constrained and compromised by the political economy at play in the continent. The constraints and compromises relate to: (1) external actors, namely international financial institutions, Western governments, international accounting standard setters, Western accounting associations pursuing global growth, and the ‘Big 4’ accounting firms; and (2) local actors and circumstances, such as domestic governments, weak regulation, low accounting capacity, and webs of corruption. The reported problems with accounting in Africa appear not to reside primarily in accounting per se, but with how it is conceived, implemented and used to achieve particular interests, mostly at the expense of social, economic and institutional development at the domestic level.



中文翻译:

非洲的会计与发展

尽管对于迫切需要应对发展挑战(例如减轻贫困、改善卫生和公共基础设施、提高识字率和改善健康)的非洲国家来说,会计常常被视为经济和社会发展的重要组成部分,但对非洲会计和发展的研究经常被忽视并归于边缘,尤其是在领先的会计期刊中。本期特刊刊登了各种作品——从理论上、方法论和实证上跨越非洲的广泛国家,寻求解决这一问题,并为进一步反思和未来研究提供途径和问题。特别是,本特刊中的文章记录了会计在非洲私营、公共和第三部门中的作用,以及这一角色如何受到非洲大陆政治经济的限制和损害。限制和妥协涉及: (1) 外部参与者,即国际金融机构、西方政府、国际会计准则制定者、追求全球增长的西方会计协会以及“四大”会计师事务所;(2) 当地行为者和环境,例如国内政府、监管薄弱、会计能力低和腐败网络。报告的非洲会计问题似乎不主要在于会计本身,而在于如何构思、实施和使用会计以实现特定利益,主要以牺牲国内社会、经济和体制发展为代价。限制和妥协涉及: (1) 外部参与者,即国际金融机构、西方政府、国际会计准则制定者、追求全球增长的西方会计协会以及“四大”会计师事务所;(2) 当地行为者和环境,例如国内政府、监管薄弱、会计能力低和腐败网络。报告的非洲会计问题似乎不主要在于会计本身,而在于如何构思、实施和使用会计以实现特定利益,主要以牺牲国内社会、经济和体制发展为代价。限制和妥协涉及: (1) 外部参与者,即国际金融机构、西方政府、国际会计准则制定者、追求全球增长的西方会计协会以及“四大”会计师事务所;(2) 当地行为者和环境,例如国内政府、监管薄弱、会计能力低和腐败网络。报告的非洲会计问题似乎不主要在于会计本身,而在于如何构思、实施和使用会计以实现特定利益,主要以牺牲国内社会、经济和体制发展为代价。追求全球增长的西方会计协会,以及“四大”会计师事务所;(2) 当地行为者和环境,例如国内政府、监管薄弱、会计能力低和腐败网络。报告的非洲会计问题似乎不主要在于会计本身,而在于如何构思、实施和使用会计以实现特定利益,主要以牺牲国内社会、经济和体制发展为代价。追求全球增长的西方会计协会,以及“四大”会计师事务所;(2) 当地行为者和环境,例如国内政府、监管薄弱、会计能力低和腐败网络。报告的非洲会计问题似乎不主要在于会计本身,而在于如何构思、实施和使用会计以实现特定利益,主要以牺牲国内社会、经济和体制发展为代价。

更新日期:2021-01-27
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