Robert Ashton

Do you want to make your life better? More successful, more productive, more healthy or simply more fulfulling? Most of us do, but we don't always know where to start. Meer

"Robert Ashton spells out what you need to do, step by step, to be a successful entrepreneur. What is unique is the way his book reassures and encourages even the most diffident business starter. Meer

This volume collects together out of print and hard to find sources on the behavioural implications of accounting. It begins with the 1952 monograph, The Impact of Budgets on People by Chris Argyris, considered by many to mark the beginning of behavioural research in accounting and is followed by:a critique of the general state of accounting research in 1960critical evaluation of Argyris’ research and other behavioural studiesdiscussion of the research activity in the behavioural aspects of accounting during the 1960s and 70sa comprehensive perspective on the development of behavioural accounting research in the 1980s including discussion of the division of behavioural accounting research into two branches. Meer

Although there has been increased emphasis on research that attempts to understand, evaluate and improve audit decision making in recent years it is less well-known that some noteworthy contributions to the study of audit judgment were made in the 1950s and 1960s. Meer