Watts and Zimmerman’s ‘The Demand and Supply of Accounting Theories:
The Market for Excuses’ suggested the ‘normative’ project of accounting
academics and other social critics of corporate accounting practice to
be invalid; that there are no objective grounds in accounting theory for
judging accounting practice as ‘good’ or ‘bad’; all such judgements are
mere excuses or apologies for advancing the interests of particular
social constituencies, couched in a language of academic impartiality
and objectivity.
Tony Tinker [Policing Accounting Knowledge:
the market for excuses affair] has suggested that the positive
accounting theory proposed by Watts and Zimmerman is being replaced by a
new paradigm: one that emphasises usefulness,vocational training and
practical application.
Contrast ‘normative’ theories with ‘positive accounting’ theory. Have we moved to a new paradigm and if so what is it
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