Pedagogic metaphors and the nature of accounting signification

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 213-230

  McGoun, Elton G ^a   Bettner, Mark S ^a   Coyne, Michael P ^a  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial Statements; Lenses; Metaphor; Pedagogy; Photographs; Representation; Scrabble; Signification; Signs; Symbols

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846164769     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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