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Measurement and Interpretation in Accounting
Measurement and Interpretation in Accounting Author:G. A. Swanson, James Grier Miller For many years the accounting profession has attempted to construct a conceptual framework that logically ties together its many ideas and procedures. As this systems view of accounting emerges it is important, argue Swanson and Miller, to make the distinction between what is opinion or personal interpretation and what is numerical or empirical ... more »evidence. In this pioneering book they develop a coherent theory of accounting measurement based on living systems theory and provide a fundamental framework for classifying the various accounting ideas and procedures into those that concern measurements of concrete economic processes and interpretations of those measurements.« less