Ferry, L. and Zakaria, Z. and Zakaria, Z. and Slack, R. (2018) 'Framing public governance in Malaysia : rhetorical appeals through accrual accounting.', Accounting forum., 42 (2). pp. 170-183.
Abstract
In government, the challenges of governance and anti-corruption are exacerbated by accounting not being fit for purpose. In developing countries, many governments adopt accrual accounting as a panacea. Drawing on Goffman's frame analysis, and rhetorical appeals to logic, credibility and emotion, this paper examines the adoption of accrual accounting in Malaysia. It was found accrual accounting has potential for keying governance and anti-corruption. However, rhetorical appeals that attempt to legitimate neo-liberalism and engender public support in the name of progress were hindered by perceptions of endemic corruption and relatively weak democratic institutions of ‘good’ governance common to developing countries.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. Download PDF (1213Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2017.07.002 |
| Publisher statement: | © 2017 This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Date accepted: | 08 July 2017 |
| Date deposited: | 12 July 2017 |
| Date of first online publication: | 19 July 2017 |
| Date first made open access: | 19 January 2019 |
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