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A unique view of accounting as its own special sort of language and what this means for the uses of accounting and its products.

Table of Contents

Preface Accounting as a Language Linguistic Relativity in Accounting Appendix: The Impact of Socio-economic Accounting Statements on the Investment Decision: An Empirical Study Sociolinguistic Thesis and Accounting Appendix: The Interprofessional Linguistic Communication of Accounting Concepts: An Experiment in Sociolinguistics Bilingual Thesis in Accounting Appendix: Bilingualism and the Perception of Professional Concepts Index

About the Author

AHMED RIAHI-BELKAOUI, Professor of Accounting, University of Illinois at Chicago. A profilic author of journal articles and scholarly and professional books and textbooks he serves on the editorial boards of numerous prestigious journals in his field and is known for his unusual, often groundbreaking research and analysis. This is is 27th Quorum book.