Making decisions when managing organisations always involves the constant management
of ambiguity and a great deal of complexity due to uncertainties and the intrinsic political …

Cognition is often a problem in management accounting communication. A gap arises
between the sender and receiver of management accounting information, leading to …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the representation of human rights issues within
photographs in the 2015 corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports of Fortune 70 …

The aim of this article is to contribute to the literature on legitimacy by investigating its
material and visual dimensions. By drawing on studies on rhetoric as a means of composing …

Is society possible without accounting? In speech or in writing, we communicate actions,
plans and decisions using numbers, calculations, words and images. Although accounting …

For years financial and management accounting reports were based primarily on “hard”
numbers. Extensive written descriptions and explanations were not common in practice …

This article investigates the extant literature on the correlation between narratives in
corporate annual reports and corporate performance. Prior studies are reviewed for overall …

Purpose The purposes of this paper are to explore accounting talk events and to contribute
to the literature by presenting a model of accounting talk genres. Design/methodology …

This study explores graphical depictions in annual and corporate social responsibility
reports. The 10 largest Canadian corporations in the oil and gas industry were selected to …

Research in financial communication has long been dominated by scholars in accounting
and finance, who largely focused on the extratextual aspects of financial disclosures, such …