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Transparency and accountability for the global good? The UK's implementation of EU law requiring country-by-country reporting of payments to governments by extractives.

Chatzivgeri, Eleni; Chew, Lynsie; Crawford, Louise; Gordon, Martyn; Haslam, Jim

Authors

Eleni Chatzivgeri

Lynsie Chew

Louise Crawford

Jim Haslam



Abstract

We draw upon the critical accounting literature to theorise what we see here as an accounting mobilisation and functioning in context. The manifestation entails ostensibly a progressive transparency and accountability and merits critical attention vis-à-vis concerns to better link accounting with the common good. We here find Gallhofer et al. (2015) and Gallhofer & Haslam (2017), with their appreciation of ‘emancipatory’ dimensions of accounting and how accounting can become ‘more (or less) emancipatory’, a useful framing, especially if, informed by critical studies that have problematised dimensions of transparency and accountability systems, their notions of the complex and multifaceted ambivalence of accounting systems are elaborated more explicitly vis-à-vis transparency and accountability. We focus upon the UK’s implementation of Chapter 10 of the EU’s Accounting Directive (and the equivalent Transparency Directive provisions), which is ostensibly progressive legislation prescribing Reports on Payments to Governments. Our empirical study indicates both progressive and problematic dimensions of the accounting and its dynamics in context, extending theoretical appreciation including for praxis.

Citation

CHATZIVGERI, E., CHEW, L., CRAWFORD, L., GORDON, M. and HASLAM, J. 2020. Transparency and accountability for the global good? The UK’s implementation of EU law requiring country-by-country reporting of payments to governments by extractives. Critical perspectives on accounting [online], 67-68, article ID 102074. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2019.02.001

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 3, 2019
Online Publication Date Feb 16, 2019
Publication Date Mar 31, 2020
Deposit Date Apr 1, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Critical Perspectives On Accounting
Print ISSN 1045-2354
Electronic ISSN 1095-9955
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 67-68
Article Number 102074
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2019.02.001
Keywords Extractives; Transparency; Accountability; Country-by-country; Emancipatory accounting
Public URL http://hdl.handle.net/10059/3321

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