The tale of a committee that never reported: Disagreements on intertwining accounting with the social

The efforts of a committee which never finally reported provided an interesting insight into the problems involved in a social analysis of the accounting craft. In this tale of the deliberations on this committee both its mobilising concerns and bases for disagreement are emphasised. The latter are shown to be of wider significance to the accounting research community, related as they are to substantive debates in the social sciences generally.