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Record W2756998601 · doi:10.32396/usurj.v4i1.267

Does Accounting Matter? A Social Constructivist Perspective

2017· article· en· W2756998601 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Krista Loewen

Bibliographic record

VenueUSURJ University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicAccounting and Organizational Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSocial realityConstruct (python library)AccountingPerspective (graphical)LegitimacyProcess (computing)Social constructionismAccounting information systemPublic relationsBusinessSociologyPolitical scienceComputer scienceSocial scienceLawPolitics

Abstract

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Accounting plays an integral role in the construction of economic reality, and therefore, it matters to accountants, users of financial information, and all those who are impacted by the decisions made based on accounting information. Beyond examining why accounting matters, this paper demonstrates how a cyclical process creates and reinforces a particular accountant-created reality, and how legitimacy is gained for agents within the system. Accounting matters because as the preparers of financial statements, accountants construct a reality. As this constructed reality is used, it is legitimized and perpetuated, and the process repeats to reinforce the reality and influence society. Throughout this process, the structure of society is also reinforced. Understanding that the reality is a created one means that societal change is possible, as the construction can be altered.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.415
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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