However, the principal stated reasons
for its status were that it was not a
part of "accounting" and it was not coherent
- either theoretically or practically.
Both of which accusations were
probably true at the time. 1979 and the
election of Thatcher in the UK signalled
the end of any brief flirtation with concerns
like social accounting and until
they rode in on the coat tails of environmental
concern in the late 1980s, social
accounting and auditing were the province
of the dispossessed and dissatisfied.
By 1990, however, everybody was suddenly
"green" and the environmental
agenda has steadily developed and,much to my astonishment, has not been
wheeled off into obscurity again.