This text is designed to provide an understanding of the role that accounting services and the major multinational firms which supply them are having in the processes of economic expansion in the international ecomony and, more specifically, in the Third World. The study is unusual in that it supplies both accounting and economic expertise. Special features include a discussion of the growing role and impact of various consulting services that accounting firms offer. In addition, it provides an analysis of the role of technology and a discussion of accounting in the context of multinational corporations. The book also offers important insights into the implications of accounting services for policies geared to economic development.