Communication that Counts: Language Practice and Ideology in Globalized Accounting

This book investigates dominant views about communication and interrogates what shapes these views in the accounting field from a Global South perspective, exploring the idea of 'good communication in the globalized accounting field.' It examines language and communication practices and ideologies in accounting education and work in the Philippines, an emerging global leader in offshore accounting.

Format: Hardback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 29 November 2022
Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Accounting communication research has primarily concentrated on the skills that determine what constitutes 'effective communication.' Existing research, which is highly perception-based, skills-focused, and Global North-centric, tends to echo the skills deficit discourse, which overemphasizes the role of the higher education system in developing students' work-relevant communication skills. This book explores dominant views about communication in the accounting field from a Global South perspective, examining the concept of 'good communication in the globalized accounting field.' Using the occupational stereotype of shy employees who are good with numbers but bad with words as its starting point, this book examines language and communication practices and ideologies in accounting education and work in the Philippines. As an emerging global leader in offshore accounting, the Philippines is an ideal context for an exploration of multilingual, multimodal, and transnational workplace communication.

Accounting communication research has primarily concentrated on the skills that determine what constitutes 'effective communication.' Existing research, which is highly perception-based, skills-focused, and Global North-centric, tends to echo the skills deficit discourse, which overemphasizes the role of the higher education system in developing students' work-relevant communication skills. This book explores dominant views about communication in the accounting field from a Global South perspective, examining the concept of 'good communication in the globalized accounting field.' Using the occupational stereotype of shy employees who are good with numbers but bad with words as its starting point, this book examines language and communication practices and ideologies in accounting education and work in the Philippines. As an emerging global leader in offshore accounting, the Philippines is an ideal context for an exploration of multilingual, multimodal, and transnational workplace communication.

Accounting communication research has primarily concentrated on the skills that determine what constitutes 'effective communication.' Existing research, which is highly perception-based, skills-focused, and Global North-centric, tends to echo the skills deficit discourse, which overemphasizes the role of the higher education system in developing students' work-relevant communication skills. This book explores dominant views about communication in the accounting field from a Global South perspective, examining the concept of 'good communication in the globalized accounting field.' Using the occupational stereotype of shy employees who are good with numbers but bad with words as its starting point, this book examines language and communication practices and ideologies in accounting education and work in the Philippines. As an emerging global leader in offshore accounting, the Philippines is an ideal context for an exploration of multilingual, multimodal, and transnational workplace communication.

Accounting communication research has primarily concentrated on the skills that determine what constitutes 'effective communication.' Existing research, which is highly perception-based, skills-focused, and Global North-centric, tends to echo the skills deficit discourse, which overemphasizes the role of the higher education system in developing students' work-relevant communication skills. This book explores dominant views about communication in the accounting field from a Global South perspective, examining the concept of 'good communication in the globalized accounting field.' Using the occupational stereotype of shy employees who are good with numbers but bad with words as its starting point, this book examines language and communication practices and ideologies in accounting education and work in the Philippines. As an emerging global leader in offshore accounting, the Philippines is an ideal context for an exploration of multilingual, multimodal, and transnational workplace communication.

Accounting communication research has primarily concentrated on the skills that determine what constitutes 'effective communication.' Existing research, which is highly perception-based, skills-focused, and Global North-centric, tends to echo the skills deficit discourse, which overemphasizes the role of the higher education system in developing students' work-relevant communication skills. This book explores dominant views about communication in the accounting field from a Global South perspective, examining the concept of 'good communication in the globalized accounting field.' Using the occupational stereotype of shy employees who are good with numbers but bad with words as its starting point, this book examines language and communication practices and ideologies in accounting education and work in the Philippines. As an emerging global leader in offshore accounting, the Philippines is an ideal context for an exploration of multilingual, multimodal, and transnational workplace communication.

Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800416475