Abstract

Foreword. Introduction. Part I: The Noble Art of Counting Beans 1. Stewardship Reporting: The Physical Dimension 2. Business Accounting 3. Performance Reporting: the Value Dimension Part II: The Measurement of Income and Value 4. Economic Income and Accounting Profit 5. The Inflation Accounting 'Debate' 6. Historical Cost or Current Value? Part III: A Theoretical Blind Alley 7. Value Change: A Wrong Turning? 8. Asset Valuation: A Convenient Distraction? 9. Fair Value Accounting: A Dead End? Part IV: Back to Basics 10. What's Wrong with Investment Theory? 11. The 'Threshold of Measurement' 12. The Fatal Conceit of Managerial Capitalism 13. What's Wrong with Accounting Standards? Part V: The Segregation of Funds and Value 14. Financial Performance and the Investment Rate 15. A Segregated System of Funds and Value Accounting 16. Management and the Auditor: A Question of Public Accountability Part VI: Truth in Accounting 17. Elimination of the Expectation Gap 18. Reconstruction of the Conceptual Framework 19. Accounting Truth and Economic Reality. Appendices

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