Written by two well-known accounting experts, this book is vital reading for all students of management accounting and will also be a useful supplementary resource for those wanting to understand and research accounting's vital role in contemporary society. 'Another landmark book by the authors. It is essential and provocative reading for any social scientist, whether an established researcher or a postgraduate aspiring to become one, wishing to understand the history of management accounting knowledge and practices from the emergence of modernity in the seventeenth century until today.'- Trevor Hopper, Professor Emeritus of Management Accounting, University of Sussex, UK 'The authors of this book have tackled management accounting as a social science. It is a massive contemporary literature review which explores many important themes regarding management accounting technologies and practice. It is theoretically informed and provides many alternate theoretical lenses so accounting researchers, educators and students can use this book to explain management accounting in contemporary times. Particularly I like the final chapters that explored the neoliberal governability in a global sense and important issues such as biopolitical security including global financials scandals, systematic financial risks, corruption, environmental and sustainability, development and poverty etc. I highly recommend this book.' - James Guthrie, Distinguished Professor of Accounting, Macquarie University, Australia