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1. 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
2. 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 April 11th 2010 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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 January 11th 2006 by Routledge
7. 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 9th 2004 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Mark to Market Accounting

   'True North' in Financial Reporting

   By Walter P. Schuetze

   Edited by Peter W. Wolnizer

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   This Volume, edited by Peter W. Wolnizer, Professor of Accounting at the University of Sydney, makes available the collected writings of Walter P. Scheutze, a senior accounting practitioner. The articles, speeches and letters collected here probe the most fundamental problems of corporate financial...

   Published November 12th 2003 by Routledge
10. Professionalism and Accounting Rules

    By Brian P. West

    Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

    This book investigates the issues raised by the vast array of accounting standards and technical rules which have marked the recent history of accounting. It is argued that the accounting profession is beset by an inferior and incomplete notion of quality in its work which emphasises compliance...

    Published April 16th 2003 by Routledge