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Nearly half a century ago Boulding (1962) wrote: ‘Economics and accountancy [‘the uncongenial twins’] are two disciplines which draw their raw material from much the same mines. From these raw materials, however, they seem to fashion remarkably different products. … In spite of an apparently common subject-matter, they often seem to inhabit totally different worlds, between which there is remarkably little communication.’
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© 2009 D. R. Myddelton
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Myddelton, D.R. (2009). Accounting Profit Versus Economic Income. In: Margins of Error in Accounting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595019_5
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