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1. A History of Auditing

   The Changing Audit Process in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

   By Derek Matthews

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   The rise of the British accountancy profession from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and the world-wide success of its accountancy firms, were to a large extent based on the growth of the audit function. This book explores the history of the audit process in Britain, demonstrating...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. A History of Management Accounting

   The British Experience

   By Richard Edwards, Trevor Boyns

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   There is growing interest in the history of accounting amongst both accounting practitioners and accounting academics. This interest developed steadily from about 1970 and really ‘took off’ in the 1990s. However, there is a lack of texts dealing with major aspects of accounting history...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. Critical Histories of Accounting

   Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era

   Edited by Richard K. Fleischman, Warwick Funnell, Stephen Walker

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline’s academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
4. Accounting Theory

   Essays by Carl Thomas Devine

   Edited by Harvey Hendrickson, Paul Williams

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   One of the outstanding accounting theoreticians of the twentieth century, Carl Thomas Devine exhibited a breadth and depth of knowledge few in the field of accounting have equalled. This book collects together eight previously unpublished essays on accounting theory written by Professor Devine....

   Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Two Hundred Years of Accounting Research

   By Richard Mattessich

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   This is the first and only book to offer a comprehensive survey of accounting research on a broad international scale for the last two centuries. Its main emphasis is on accounting research in the English, German, Italian, French and Spanish language areas; it also contains chapters...

   Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
6. Accountancy and Empire

   The British Legacy of Professional Organization

   Edited by Chris Poullaos, Suki Sian

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   This book brings together, for the first time, studies of the professionalisation of accountancy in key constituent territories of the British Empire. The late nineteenth century was a period of intensive activity in terms of both imperialism and professionalisation. A team of expert contributors...

   Published May 19th 2010 by Routledge
7. Double Accounting for Goodwill

   A Problem Redefined

   By Martin Bloom

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   Goodwill, sometimes purchased but often more significantly internally generated, is the major constituent of the value of many listed companies. Accounting aims to provide users of financial statements with useful information, and more than fifty current International Financial Reporting Standards...

   Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
8. Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting

   A User-Oriented Approach

   By Paul Rosenfield

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   With the collapse of Enron and other similar scandals, financial reporting and its relation to corporate governance has become a contentious issue. In this revealing book, author Paul Rosenfield involves the reader in exploring contemporary financial reporting and skilfully highlights the...

   Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge
9. The Development of the American Public Accounting Profession

   Scottish Chartered Accountants and the Early American Public Accountancy Profession

   By T.A. Lee

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   The book presents a series of researched biographies of professional accountants who immigrated to the United States and developed their careers there in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This volume is a tribute to the efforts of a relatively small...

   Published July 13th 2006 by Routledge
10. The Institute of Accounts

    By Stephen E. Loeb, Paul J. Miranti

    Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

    This book focuses upon the Institute of Accounts (IA), an organization to which the modern United States accounting profession can trace its roots. The IA was organized in the early 1880s in New York City and, as discussed in this book, attracted a diverse membership that included some of the...

    Published November 19th 2003 by Routledge