Pioneers of Critical Accounting A Celebration of the Life of Tony Lo
This book celebrates the life and work of Tony Lowe, a pioneer of critical accounting. The authors elaborate on the fact that Tony Lowe regarded accounting as a moral and political practice rather than some dry technical phenomena because it has serious s
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A Celebration of the Life of Tony Lowe
Edited by Jim Haslam and Prem Sikka
Pioneers of Critical Accounting
Jim Haslam • Prem Sikka Editors
Pioneers of Critical Accounting A Celebration of the Life of Tony Lowe
Editors Jim Haslam University of Sheffield United Kingdom
Prem Sikka University of Essex United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-54211-3 ISBN 978-1-137-54212-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54212-0
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To Thildy and the Lowe Family
Foreword
As one of his former graduate students whose entire academic career benefited from the foundations he laid, I am honoured to have been invited to contribute a Foreword to this Festschrift in recognition of Tony Lowe’s major contributions to Accounting. In 1971, when Ernest Anthony Lowe (1928–2014) was appointed as the first Professor of Accounting and Financial Management (his choice of title) at the University of Sheffield, Accounting was not taught in most universities in the UK, and much of the Accounting that was taught (not only in the UK) was based on the premise that accounting is what accountants do. In other words, it was seen by many that the technical aspects of accounting practice should provide the core under-pinning of the Accounting curriculum, and little thought was given to theorising about Accounting as a basis for: • evaluating the adequacy of accounting practice as a step towards improving it; • contextualising Accounting within organisational or societal frames of reference; • considerin
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