1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910290560103321

Autore

Bemelmans-Videc, Marie-Louise

Titolo

Making accountability work : dilemmas for evaluation and for audit / edited by Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc, Jeremy Lonsdale and Burt Perrin ; with a foreword by Amitai Etzioni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Routledge, 2007

ISBN

9781412865555

Descrizione fisica

XVIII, 272 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Comparative policy evaluation ; 14

Altri autori (Persone)

Lonsdale, Jeremy

Perrin, Burt

Disciplina

658.45

352.35

Locazione

BFS

Collocazione

658.45 BEM 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455396503321

Autore

Pomeroy Sarah B

Titolo

The murder of Regilla [[electronic resource] ] : a case of domestic violence in antiquity / / Sarah B. Pomeroy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-674-04220-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Classificazione

NH 8550

Disciplina

364.152/3092

Soggetti

Uxoricide - Greece - Athens - History

Wife abuse - Greece - Athens - History

Trials (Murder) - Rome - History

Upper class women - Greece - Athens

Upper class women - Rome

Civilization, Greco-Roman

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Girlhood in Rome -- Chapter 2. A Roman Matron in Imperial Athens -- Chapter 3. Public Life -- Chapter 4. Death in Athens and Murder Trial in Rome -- Chronological Chart. Notes. Acknowledgments. Art Credits. Index -- Chronological Chart -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Art Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 BCE, Regilla was married at the age of fifteen to Herodes, a wealthy Greek. Twenty years later--and eight months pregnant with her sixth child--Regilla died under mysterious circumstances, after a blow to the abdomen delivered by Herodes's freedman. Though Herodes was charged, he was acquitted. Pomeroy's investigation suggests that despite Herodes's erection of numerous monuments to his deceased wife, he was in fact guilty of the crime.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793513603321

Titolo

Beyond perceptions, crafting meaning / / edited by Cheryl R. Lehman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78973-225-5

1-78973-223-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 pages)

Collana

Advances in public interest accounting, , 1041-7060 ; ; Volume 21

Disciplina

657.45

Soggetti

Auditing - Research

Business & Economics - Accounting - General

Accounting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Prelims -- 1 Do sustainability measures matter in managerial appraisal and rewards? -- 2 An examination of the perceptions of auditors and chief financial officers of the proposed statement of financial accounting concept definition of materiality -- 3 An evaluation of the effectiveness of sec oversight of climate change disclosures : an analysis of comment letters -- 4 The banks and market manipulation : a financial strain analysis of the libor fraud -- 5 Environmental efficiency, firm efficiency, and managerial ability.

Sommario/riassunto

Researching accounting's participation in financial regulation, banking practices, managerial incentives and environmental disclosures this volume presents scholarly work adopting interdisciplinary approaches in auditing and accountability realms. Although conceptually accounting enhances public spheres and contributes to constraining overarching power, researchers question whether in practice accounting supports responsible activities. Among the provocations offered, authors ask: what is material? How are decisions to foster environmental protection best motivated? What is a set of public policies and practices by which responsible actions can be defined and fraud minimized? Questioning accounting as rational in how policy is established the authors delve into accounting interactions and



conflicts. Their perspectives and insights enrich our understanding of accounting policies, organizations and relationships dismissing separate worlds of social, economic and political factors. Their research illustrates how dichotomies of private versus public and legal versus moral obscure important connections.