Accounting for the Banal: Financial Techniques as Softwares of Colonialism

Dean Neu

Chapter Chapter 8 in Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement, 2003, pp 193-212 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Techniques of accounting, accountability, and finance are ubiquitous in modern-day society. Universities, colleges, and a variety of other institutions offer courses on accounting, financial planning, and finance for people who wish to pursue related career paths. The popular press and even public broadcasters regularly report accounting-based information on corporations. As a result terms such as annual reports, earnings per share calculations, profit and loss numbers, price-earnings ratios, and earnings forecasts have entered the public lexicon. Likewise on a personal level, the notions of accounting and accountability are central to “income tax planning,” “retirement planning” and to the annual ritual of submitting an income tax form.

Keywords: Indigenous People; Residential School; Subsistence Activity; Debt Covenant; Annuity Payment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403982292_8

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