Book DescriptionAdvances in Public Interest Accounting is a research publication with two major aims First, to provide a forum for researchers concerned with critically appraising and significantly transforming conventional accounting theory, practice,teaching and research Second, to increase the social self-awareness of accounting оеьбп practitioners, educators, and researchers, encouraging them to assume a greater responsibility for the profession's social role We seek original manuscripts exploring all facets of this broad agenda Illustrative of these aims, authors are concerned with: • expanding accounting's focus beyond the behavior of individual corporate entities, encompassing the conflicts of interest within the accounting-regulatoryprocess and effected groups; • exploring alternatives to traditional economic and sociology models, beyond conventional efficiency and profitability measures of corporate performance; • recognizing and examining the influences of gender and feminist theory, class and race, on accounting practice, education, and research; • incorporating the significance of accounting as a communicative practice, as social dialogue, and as a social arbiter; • recognizing andexamining the effect of accounting practice on environmental issues and on the externalities imposed on local and global communities; • examining accounting's participation in multinational expansion, consolidations, and changing economies undergoing transformations, such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and the European Community; • addressing the impact of new advances in information technologies.  Во второй2004 г ISBN 0762311541.