While we may want to believe that accounting is nothing more than a complex system of socially neutral techniques and skills, and that economics is a science abstracted from ethics, values, emotions, exploitation, quality of life, and the state of the physical environment, such beliefs are at best untenable and at worst destructive, dishonest, and immoral.
Paraphrase from Gray R., Owen D., Adams C. "Accounting & accountability: changes and challenges in corporate social and environmental reporting" (Prentice Hall 1996).