People normally think that accounting is all about numbers and economic rationality. Professor Quattrone’s research and teaching seeks to change this taken for granted and conventional view. He studies accounting and management techniques for their visual power and ability to engage the user rather than simply for their aid to rational decision making. In his view accounting always fails to provide accurate information but it is important for the effects that it produces on organizational actors, and for the roles it plays other than producing information for decision making.
