The interviewees were asked how they constructed accounting systems and
outputs, how they interpreted and acted upon them, and their perceptions of
how they benefited from their accounting practices. The ``other lives'' of these
actors, i.e. their backgrounds and their knowledge and uses of accounting in
their public work lives, were also considered so that we might reflect on the
extent to which uses of accounting moved across work-home boundaries to
shape discourses and practices in these actors' homes.