Construyendo perspectivas de investigación: Una genealogía institucional sobre la depreciación contable como política

Construyendo perspectivas de investigación: Una genealogía institucional sobre la depreciación contable como política

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Luis González-Santos

Resumen

Las genealogías contables, constituyen la estrategia más avanzada para alcanzar experticia al abordar los más disímiles constructos del saber. En ese sentido el producto derivado es contexceptual: situado y legitimado. Las autoridades producen las reglas, conceptos, métodos, incluso teorías. Dichos constructos pautan el comportamiento humano, por su influencia en todos y a la vez en cada orden determinado. La regulación contable es una materialización social que impacta la realidad y una forma de incidir que marca las actuaciones de sus profesionales, sean practicantes, docentes o académicos. Utilizando las genealogías como recurso de investigación histórica, este documento analiza, la verdad y validez que subyace a la depreciación, desde la perspectiva del regulador institucional. Se evidencia como tal organismo determina, la operacionalización de las reglas emitidas como política, sin que los conceptos, los métodos y las teorías aportados desde la academia, tengan la relevancia que ameritan. Desde esta perspectiva, estudiar cada trozo de verdad producido, reviste al constructo depreciación de un estado actual, cuya génesis-evolución es producto del metabolismo intelectual que nutre su discusión en el contexto organizacional. Y, aun así, el todo alcanzado, será a la vez más y menos que la suma de sus partes. Constituye estar un paso más cerca de la verdad, abriendo de nuevo oportunidad a la investigación histórica, en contraste a otro tipo de encerramientos que evidencian dar más validez a las oposiciones dicotómicas.

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