Search for dissertations about: "The Audit Society"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words The Audit Society.

  2. 1. Before Audit : Essays on the necessity of imagination

    Author : Mohamed Mahieddine; Mikael Holmgren Caicedo; Gustav Johed; Henri Guénin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Auditing; Mimesis; Possibilities; The Audit Society; Imagination; Ontology; Verification; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : The audit society idea has radically influenced our conception of auditing with its critique of the functionalist view that sees auditing as an objective verification of steady facts. The audit society thesis argues that auditing is a ‘technology of representation’ and auditors are involved in the construction of facts they are supposed to verify. READ MORE

  4. 2. The voice of the people? : Supplications submitted to the Swedish Diet in the Age of Liberty, 1719–1772

    Author : Martin Almbjär; Svante Norrhem; Peter Lindström; Nils Erik Villstrand; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Age of Liberty; audit; Diet of Estates; early modern state formation; eighteenth century; institutions; national debt; parliamentary committees; petitions; political participation; public office; supplications; taxes; trade privileges; Supreme Court; welfare; historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation is devoted to the study of who used the formal channels of interaction in the early modern era and why. It examines the full range of the political conversation in early modern Sweden, as seen in the supplications to the Diet in the Age of Liberty (1719–1772), and more specifically the supplications submitted to the parliamentary committee tasked with handling them, the Screening Deputation. READ MORE

  5. 3. The auditor : Creating a concept of the auditor through auditors' own perceptions and understandings of their work in relation to boundary-setting forces

    Author : Nellie Gertsson; Pernilla Broberg; Sven-Olof Collin; Torbjörn Tagesson; Marita Blomkvist; Gustav Johed; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Auditor; Boundary-setting forces; Professional versus business; Clients; Added value; Revisor; Gränssättande krafter; Professionell kontra affärer; Klienter; Mervärde;

    Abstract : The overall purpose of this licentiate dissertation is to advance our understanding of the auditor by creating a concept of the auditor through focusing on auditors' own perceptions and understandings of their work in relation to boundary-setting forces. The audit profession, the audit firm, the client, society, regulations, and the market are all boundary-setting forces that influence the work of auditors and how auditors perceive and understand their work. READ MORE

  6. 4. “Quality Problems” in Swedish Municipal Adult Education : The Micropolitics of Quality Construed in the Audit Society

    Author : Johanna Mufic; Andreas Fejes; Song-ee Ahn; Andreas Bergh; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Adult Education; Governing; Swedish Schools Inspectorate; Quality; WPR-approach; Kvalitet; Skolinspektion; Styrning; WPR-applikation; Vuxenutbildning;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to analyze and critically scrutinize how quality is construed in an audit process in Swedish Municipal Adult Education (MAE) and the discursive effects. Drawing on adult education policy documents and observations of a quality audit process, as well as the Swedish Schools Inspectorate’s (SSI) Day, this study also contributes to the uncharted field of how the micropolitics of “quality” is being produced in the Audit society within adult education. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Prerequisites and Practices of Auditing Residential Care : On the Licensing and Inspection of Residential Homes for Children in Sweden

    Author : David Pålsson; Stefan Wiklund; Marie Sallnäs; Kerstin Svensson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Child welfare; Out-of-home care; Residential care for children and adolescents; Audit; Licensing; Inspection; Quality Indicators; Social Work; socialt arbete;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to describe and analyse the prerequisites and practices of auditing Swedish residential care for children. Residential care is a complex intervention provided to children in vulnerable life situations. READ MORE