Accounting at War emphasizes the significant power that financial and accounting controls gave to political elites and the impact of these controls on military performance. Accounting at War examines the effects of these controls in wars such as the Crimean, South African and Vietnam wars.

• Professor Warwick Funnell is Professor of Accounting and Public Sector Accountability and Head of Accounting and Finance Group at Kent Business School, UK
• Michele Chwastiak is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico, USA

List of Tables and Figures Foreword Preface Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Pathological Responses to Accounting Controls in the Crimean War. Chapter 3. Accounting for Military Failure in the South African War. Chapter 4. Military Accounting and the Business of War. Chapter 5. Taming the Untamable: Planning, Programing and Budgeting and the Normalization of War. Chapter 6. Rationality, Performance Measures and Representations of Reality in the Vietnam War. Chapter 7. The Holocaust, Accounting and the Denial of Humanity. Chapter 8. Rendering Death and Destruction Visible: Counting the Costs of War. Chapter 9. Commodifying State Crime: Accounting for "Extraordinary Rendition" References Index