In some cases, a professor’s legal testimony can be very valuable. A judge has now stated on the record just how valuable, measured by cash, that can be: “a million dollars or so”. A December 18, 2023 Associated Press report, headlined “Judge criticizes Trump’s expert witness as he again refuses to toss fraud lawsuit“, says: […]
Tag: accounting
Rhizomic Digitized Surveillance Contradictions Mystery
For pure intellectual and verbal verve and daring, few fields of research rival that of Accounting Auditing Control. An audaciously provocative new example appears in the journal Accounting Auditing Control: “Rhizomic Digitized Surveillance, Contradictions, and Managerial Control Practice: Insights from the Société Générale Scandal,” by Aziza Laguecir and Bernard Leca (published in vol. 29, no. […]
42 (in an accountingisation context)
What are the meaning(s) and context(s) of intellectual capital (IC) numbers? Specifically the number 42? The number which, as those familiar with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will know, was the (eventual) answer given by the gargantuan computer Deep Thought in response to “The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”. John Dumay […]
Accounting simplified, by Simon Rippon
Accounting — taking account of things — can be more pleasing if you don’t take account of some of the things. Here’s an example of that principle. Simon Rippon, former International Editor and European Editor of the publication Nuclear News, wrote an essay in their July 2009 issue. He explained that the public did not […]

