This unique companion is designed to capture both the qualitative research and the pedagogic concerns surrounding the concept of communicating accounting. In a comprehensive reference volume, an international coterie of contributors line up to present a state-of-the-art assessment on each of the main facets of this important topic.

Part I: The Landscape 1. The Power of Accounting Communication 2. The Accounting Communication Research Landscape 3. An Historical Perspective from the Work of Chambers Part II: A Variety of Media: Beyond Numbers 4. The Language of Corporate Annual Reports: A Critical Discourse Analysis 5. Visual Perspectives 6. The Role of Metaphor 7. Rhetoric and the Art of Memory 8. Accounting Narratives and Impression Management Part III: Contemporary and Professional Issues 9. Phantasmagoria, Sustain-a-Babbling in Social and Environmental Reporting 10. Accounting Communication inside Organizations 11. Communication Apprehension and Accounting Education 12. Review of US Pedagogic Research and Debates on Writing in Accounting 13. Is XBRL a Killer App? Part IV: Construction of Meaning 14. A Big Four Practitioner View 15. Argument, Audit and Principles-Based Accounting 16. A Critical Perspective

Lisa Jack is Professor of Accounting at the University of Portsmouth Business School, UK. Her research interests encompass performance measurement, accounting in food supply chains and management control. She is the author of a book on benchmarking as well as several research papers, book chapters and CIMA reports

Jane Davison is Professor of Accounting at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her research interests include visual and narrative perspectives on accounting. She is widely published in major international journals, co-editor of several journal special issues, co-founder of the inVisio research network and associate director of the Bangor Centre for Impression Management in Accounting

Russell Craig is Professor of Accounting at Victoria University, Australia. His main research interests include financial reporting, international accounting and the accountability discourse of executives. He is the co-author of CEO-Speak: The Language of Corporate Leadership (2006, McGill Queens University Press) and over 150 research papers, research monographs and book chapters