The calculation of business, or the business of calculation? Accounting as organizing through everyday communication
通过一家法国建筑公司的预算控制案例，研究日常谈话中的数字语言如何通过言语行为构建组织，揭示会计不仅发生在组织内部，更在塑造组织本身。
This article examines the language of numbers as it is used in talk within a contemporary organization to provide a better understanding of the ways speech acts, performed during the construction of accounts, contribute to the process of organizing. Based on an in-depth case study of the site budgetary control process in a French construction firm, it shows that the business of doing calculations through talk generates respective obligations and, in turn, plays a central role in the constitution of the organization. Hence, this article shows how accounting, in all of its manifestations, produces the organization and does not simply occur within it.