1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783216703321

Titolo

Financial regulation [[electronic resource] /] / guest editor: Gerald Vinten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005

ISBN

1-280-50854-X

9786610508549

1-84544-267-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (119 p.)

Collana

Managerial auditing journal ; ; v. 20, no. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

VintenGerald

Disciplina

657.45

657.45806073

Soggetti

Auditing, Internal

Management audit

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; The development of accounting regulation in the GCC; An analysis of recent accounting and auditing failures in the United States on US accounting and auditing in China; Mandatory auditor rotation and retention: impact on market share; The changing role of the auditors; A tale of corporate governance: lessons why firms fail; An exploratory study of auditors' responsibility for fraud detection in Barbados; Corporate turnaround and financial distress; Fraud risk assessments and auditors' professional skepticism

Sommario/riassunto

Except for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), all Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)countries[1] still regulate the accounting and auditing profession through the codes ofcommercial law. As we shall see later, the setting of accounting and auditingregulations in KSA (i.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964954003321

Titolo

Decolonizing European sociology : transdisciplinary approaches / / edited by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Manuela Boatca, Sérgio Costa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2010

ISBN

1-315-57619-8

1-317-15376-6

1-317-15375-8

1-282-57238-5

9786612572388

0-7546-9723-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Global connections

Altri autori (Persone)

Gutiérrez RodríguezEncarnación

BoatcăManuela

CostaSérgio <1962->

Disciplina

301.09182/1

Soggetti

Sociology - Europe

Postcolonialism - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction: Decolonizing European Sociology: Different Paths towards a Pending Project; Part I Unsettling Foundations; 1 Postcolonial Sociology: A Research Agenda; 2 Sociology After Postcolonialism: Provincialized Cosmopolitanisms and Connected Sociologies; 3 Decolonizing Postcolonial Rhetoric; Part II Pluralizing Modernity; 4 Different Roads to Modernity and Their Consequences: A Sketch; 5 New Modernities: What's New?; 6 European Self-Presentations and Narratives Challenged by Islam: Secular Modernity in Question

Part III Questioning Politics of Difference7 Eurocentrism, Sociology, Secularity; 8 Wounded Subjects: Sexual Exceptionalism and the Moral Panic on 'Migrant Homophobia' in Germany; 9 The Perpetual Redrawing of Cultural Boundaries: Central Europe in the Light of Today's Realities; Part IV Border-Thinking; 10 Integration as Colonial Pedagogy of



Postcolonial Immigrants and People of Colour; 11 The Coloniality of Power and Ethnic Affinity in Migration Policy: The Spanish Case; 12 Not all the Women Want to be White: Decolonizing Beauty Studies; Part V Looking South; 13 South of Every North

14 From the Postmodern to the Postcolonial - and Beyond Both15 Critical Geopolitics and the Decolonization of Area Studies; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around key sociological concepts and themes, this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of sociology through an assessment of the new theoretical developments.