Dean Neu

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'''Dean Neu''' is a professor of accounting at York University, Canada.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://schulich.yorku.ca/faculty/dean-neu/ |title=Dean Neu, Professor of Accounting |accessdate=December 15, 2018}}</ref> He is a former editor of ''Critical Perspectives on Accounting'', a former board member of the Parkland Institute and the Director of the Public Interest Accounting Group at York University.<ref>{{cite web |title=Public Interest Accounting Group |url=http://schulich.yorku.ca/faculty-research/public-interest-accounting-group/ |accessdate=December 15, 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>

==Intellectual contributions==

He is best known for his studies of accounting power in action: that is how governments,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Neu |first1=Dean |title=Accounting for Public Space |journal=Accounting, Organizations and Society |date=2006 |volume=31 |issue=4–5 |pages=391–414|doi=10.1016/j.aos.2005.03.001 }}</ref> international organizations<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Neu |first1=Dean |last2=Ocampo |first2=Elizabeth |last3=Graham |first3=Cameron |last4=Heincke |first4=Monica |title=Informing Technologies and the World Bank |journal=Accounting, Organizations and Society |date=2006 |volume=31 |issue=7 |pages=635–662|doi=10.1016/j.aos.2005.07.002 }}</ref> and corporations use accounting to govern and subjugate less powerful members of society, and how the less powerful respond and resist.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} This genre of accounting research—what is often referred to as critical accounting research or public interest accounting research—tends to use the case study method to examine how accounting is used in certain settings as well as the associated consequences. The starting point is the recognition that accounting numbers both help make certain aspects of organizational reality visible and distributes economic resources.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cooper |first1=David |last2=Sherer |first2=Michael |title=Cooper, David J., and Michael J. Sherer. "The value of corporate accounting reports: arguments for a political economy of accounting |journal=Accounting, Organizations and Society |date=1984 |volume=3-4 |issue=9 |pages=207–232|doi=10.1016/0361-3682(84)90008-4 }}</ref> This research differs from other accounting research such as positive accounting which assumes that research is descriptive rather than normative.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tinker |first1=Tony |last2=Merino |first2=Barbara |last3=Neimark |first3=Marilyn |title=Tinker, A. M., Merino, B. D., & Neimark, M. D. (1982). The normative origins of positive theories: ideology and accounting thought |journal=Accounting, Organizations and Society |date=1982 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=167–200|doi=10.1016/0361-3682(82)90019-8 }}</ref> Neu's publications include:

*{{cite book |last1=Neu |first1=Dean |last2=Therrien |first2=Richard |title=By the numbers: accounting for the cultural genocide of Canada's aboriginal peoples |date=2003 |publisher=Fernwood |location=Canada}} *{{cite book |last1=Ocampo |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Neu |first2=Dean |title=Doing missionary work: The World Bank and the diffusion of financial practices |date=2008 |publisher=Fernwood |location=Canada}} *{{cite journal |last1=Neu |first1=Dean |last2=Rahaman |first2=Abu |last3=Everett |first3=Jeffery |title=Accounting and sweatshops: enabling coordination and control in low-price apparel production chains |journal=Contemporary Accounting Research |date=2014 |volume=31 |issue=12 |pages=322–346|doi=10.1111/1911-3846.12026 }}

Along with other publicly-interested accounting academics such as David J. Cooper, Abraham J. Briloff, Christine Cooper and Prem Sikka, he has practiced public interest accounting through both his research and through his participation in the public sphere. These public interventions include speaking out against concrete forms of neo-liberalism such as government privatization<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Neu |first1=Dean |last2=Cooper |first2=David |last3=Everett |first3=Jeff |title=Critical Accounting Interventions |journal=Critical Perspectives on Accounting |date=2001 |volume=12 |issue=6|pages=735–762 |doi=10.1006/cpac.2001.0479 }}</ref> and deficit-cutting activities that disproportionately affect the most vulnerable members of society.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harrison |first1=Trevor |last2=Laxer |first2=Gord |title=The Trojan Horse: Alberta and the Future of Canada |date=1995 |publisher=Black Rose Books}}</ref>

==Intellectual lineage==

Neu, along with David J. Cooper<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cooper |first1=David |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://cloudfront.ualberta.ca/-/media/business/people/dcooper/davidcoopercv.pdf |website=University of Alberta |accessdate=December 15, 2018}}</ref> and Yves Gendron,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gendron |first1=Yves |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=http://sites.fsa.ulaval.ca/www4/scr/cv/yves-gendron-en.pdf |website=FSU Laval |accessdate=December 15, 2018}}</ref> has trained a number of public interest accounting academics in Canada. His former students include Jeffery Everett, Cameron Graham, Susan Greer, Elizabeth Ocampo, Darlene Himick, Gregory Saxton, and Kate Ruff.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Neu |first1=Dean |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=http://schulich.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/DNeu-cv-oct2015.pdf |website=Schulich School of Business |accessdate=December 15, 2018}}</ref>

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