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Accounting (Economics of Accounting)

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Accounting (Economics of Accounting) at London School of Economics and Political Science

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.lse.ac.uk
Type: PhD

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Accounting
Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. The modern field was established by the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in 1494. Accounting, which has been called the "language of business", measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. The terms "accounting" and "financial reporting" are often used as synonyms.
Economics
Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Economics
How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.
Jeremy Bentham, "A Critical Examination of the Declaration of Rights; Article II" in The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. II (1839), p. 503.
Accounting
… without idealism, politics becomes a form of accounting, a management of purely material interests.
Ian Buruma What’s Left After 1989?
Accounting
Si inaequalibus aequalia addas, omnia erunt inequalia.
If you add like to unlike you will always end up with unlike. Latin Adage, cited in Dialectic of Enlightenment, p. 4 Latin Adage, cited in Dialectic of Enlightenment, p. 4
Recent research has identified the interplay between social, political and technical challenges associated with the complex and expensive process of radioactive waste disposal.
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