Social Critique of Corporate Reporting: A Semiotic Analysis of Corporate Financial and Environmental Reporting: A Semiotic Analysis of Corporate Financial and Environmental Reporting

This text is concerned with the role of corporate reporting in UK public limited companies.

It is a common assumption that the most significant part of any corporate report is the accounting information contained within.

This book, however, takes a different view. The central argument is that the purpose of corporate reporting has changed from one primarily of stewardship and accountability to shareholders to a more outward- and forward-looking perspective.

The author argues that one of the driving forces for this change in orientation is the discourse of environmental accounting, along with other forces.