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- Title
Risk in Accounting.
- Authors
Sunder, Shyam
- Abstract
Risk and uncertainty are inherent in the environment and functions of accounting. Accounting reports, systems, norms, and rules help people decide, and also determine how they decide in such an environment. Diverse normative theories and descriptions of coping with risk and uncertainty yield different implications for accounting. Chambers was an articulate, forceful, and celebrated proponent of market values, while Ijiri did the same for historical costs. Elements of accounting theory that diverge in their emphases on historical cost versus market values can be linked to the divergence in the theories of risk and decision making. This largely unrecognized link between the conflicting accounting theories and their respective implicit assumptions about risky decisions may help us reconcile, understand, and progress beyond the accounting debates of the past century.
- Subjects
ACCOUNTING; CHAMBERS, Raymond John, 1917-1999; FINANCIAL statements; MATHEMATICAL models of uncertainty; RISK -- Mathematical models
- Publication
Abacus, 2015, Vol 51, Issue 4, p536
- ISSN
0001-3072
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/abac.12060