The Protestant Ethic Turns 100 or Financial Statements Present and Future Scope

The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis

Author: William H Swatos Jr

Marking the centennial anniversary of the first publication of Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" essays, a group of internationally recognized Weber scholars review the significance of Weber's essays by addressing their original context, historical reception, and ongoing relevance. Lawrence Scaff, Hartmut Lehmann, Philip Gorski, Stephen Kalberg, Martin Riesebrodt, Donald Nielsen, Peter Kivisto, and the editors offer original perspectives that engage Weber's indelible work so as to inform current issues central to sociology, history, religious studies, political science, economics, and cultural studies.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword - 1905 : Weber in the year of miracles
	Introduction - the centenary of Weber's Protestant ethic essay
Ch. 1	Friends and foes : the formation and consolidation of the Protestant ethic thesis	1
Ch. 2	Dimensions of the Protestant ethic	23
Ch. 3	The Protestant ethic and the "spirit" of capitalism as grand narrative : Max Weber's philosophy of history	53
Ch. 4	Remnants of Romanticism : Max Weber in Oklahoma and Indian Territory	77
Ch. 5	The contexts of the publication and reception of the Protestant ethic	111
Ch. 6	Rational capitalism, traditionalism, and adventure capitalism : new research on the Weber thesis	139
Ch. 7	The little divergence : the Protestant Reformation and economic hegemony in early modern Europe	165
Ch. 8	Utilizing Max Weber's "iron cage" to define the past, present, and future of the American political culture	191

Interesting book: Grace Coolidge or Utilization Focused Evaluation

Financial Statements -- Present and Future Scope

Author: Ahmed Riahi Belkaoui

The commonly used financial statements--balance sheet, income statement, and statement of changes in cash flows-- focus on a firm's financial structure and performance over a defined period of time. Although they may conform to generally accepted accounting standards they still fail to provide other information that is equally important to achieving true full disclosure. Riahi-Belkaoui proposes remedies for this neglect by taking a close look at other types of statements: the inflation, value added, employee, social performance, and human asset reports. His book is a concise, easily accessed summary of all types of reports, for practitioners, and especially useful as a text or review for students in graduate level courses in financial management and accounting.

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First Riahi-Belkaoui (accounting, U. of Illinois-Chicago) explicates the theories, methods, strengths, and weaknesses underlying conventional accounting statements in chapters on the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of changes in cash flows. Then he explores more advanced structures described in literature and sometimes put into practice to report on such matters as inflation, value added, employees, social performance, and human assets. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)