Re-Inventing Realities: 10 (Advances in Public Interest Accounting) - Tapa dura

Advances 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 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-regulatory process 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 and examining 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.

Merino is Horace Brock Professor of Accounting and Regent's Professor at the University of North Texas.

CHERYL R. LEHMAN is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Hofstra University.