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Critical Perspectives on Accounting 22 (2011) 451 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Critical Perspectives on Accounting journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cpa Accountancy Credit 2008 Finance Manuel B. Aalbers Accountancy Accountancy is a miracle performed – magic with numbers Credit Credit, in essence, is money you’ve never had and you’ll never have 2008 Two-thousand-and-eight: sub-prime crisis goes global and billions are lost Finance Stealing tomorrow from today – is called finance not art, nor science 1045-2354/$ – see front matter © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2011.01.008