Download or read book Economics of Accounting written by Peter Ove Christensen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an integrated, technical exposition of key concepts in agency theory, with particular emphasis on analyses of the economic consequences of the characteristics of contractible performance measures, such as accounting reports. It provides a succinct source for learning the fundamentals of the economics of incentives. It will appeal to accounting researchers as well as those in other disciplines who are interested in the economics of management incentives.