Accounting Evaluation and Economic Behavior

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>During the 1960s and 1970s a remarkable series of books was produced by academic staff in the field of accounting at the University of Sydney.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It was a period when academic research was largely analytical rather than empirically-based. For the most part the interests of academics at Sydney were largely directed at questioning the status quo - either in the way accounting or auditing was practiced or in the conventional wisdom expressed in textbooks of the time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Sydney Accounting Classics series reflects the diversity of interests of the 'Sydney school' at that time. It also recognises the tremendous impact of the foundation professor of accounting R.J. Chambers. This reprint series ensures that the ideas developed during this period remain available to new generations of scholars and researchers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Sydney Accounting Classics series is an initiative of the Accounting Foundation in association with Sydney University Press.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Accounting Evaluation and Economic Behavior</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book has been referred to as Chambers' magnum opus a meticulously researched and argued work describing a framework for accounting practice. This reprint edition opens the way for a new generation of researchers and scholars to read Chambers' work.</span></p><p></p>