Introduction This document contains a case study examining a social accounting process in an overseas of Ireland. This case is examining particularly on the extent of stakeholder's empowerment through evolving the social and accounting process in APSO. This case also explains that if institutional reforms enable stakeholders to participate more directly in decision making then there would be a stakeholder empowerment. It also explains how and why social accounting processes emerge with organizations. This case …
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…voices away. Talking further the amount of APSO's power over its stakeholders prohibits a two way information flow. The board's attempt to control the social account presentation contradicted their initial concern. Given the power APSO exercised over its stakeholders the board would have easily ignored their concerns. This article demonstrates that unless some formal empowerment of stakeholder groups is permitted, organisational managers can easily change the social accounting processes with effective control of stakeholder voices.