Tony Hopwood 
Accounting From the Outside (RLE Accounting) [PDF ebook] 
The Collected Papers of Anthony G. Hopwood

The 43 papers in this collection, originally published from 1972 to 1987 delve into accounting, observing and exploring its functioning. They construct a basis for interrogating it in use and indeed they attempt to account for accounting. The author seeks to understand accounting, to appreciate what it is, what it does and how it does it, examining it from without rather than from within.