History of Accounting Books

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1. Accounting and Order: Evidence from the Ancient World

   By Mahmoud Ezzamel

   The role of accounting in constructing and sustaining order in organizations and society is little understood. This book aims to contribute to the accounting literature at two levels. First, it aims to explore the role of accounting technologies in constructing and underpinning order. Second, it...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-48261-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Profitability, Accounting Theory and Methodology: The Selected Essays of Geoffrey Whittington

   By Geoffrey Whittington

   An important scholar in the history of accounting, Geoffrey Whittington's numerous articles cover a broad spectrum of the field and are both sharply insightful and extremely significant. He has made important contributions to the topics of inflation accounting, accounting theory and methodology and...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-60311-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Insights from Accounting History: Selected Writings of Stephen Zeff

   By Stephen Zeff

   Stephen Zeff has been a prolific researcher on the history of accounting and auditing in the twentieth century. He has written numerous papers on the history of standard setting and regulation, of accounting and auditing practice, of the accounting profession, of accounting thought, and of the...

   May 2010 | 978-0-415-55429-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Accountancy and Empire: The British Legacy of Professional Organization

   Edited by Chris Poullaos, Suki Sian

   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...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-45771-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Double Accounting for Goodwill: A Problem Redefined

   By Martin Bloom

   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...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-57852-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Called to Account: Fourteen Financial Frauds that Shaped the American Accounting Profession

   By Paul M. Clikeman

   Accounting fraud and how it has affected business practices both in the U.S. and internationally has never been of greater importance than it is now. Called to Account describes fourteen financial frauds that influenced the American public accounting profession and directly led to the development...

   2008 | 978-0-415-99698-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Routledge Companion to Accounting History

   Edited by John Richard Edwards, Stephen P. Walker

   The Routledge Companion to Accounting History shows how the seemingly innocuous practice of accounting has pervaded human existence in fascinating ways at numerous times and places; from ancient civilisations to the modern day, and from the personal to the political. Placing the history of...

   2008 | 978-0-415-41094-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Two Hundred Years of Accounting Research

   By Richard Mattessich

   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...

   2007 | 978-0-415-77256-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Financial Reporting in the UK: A History of the Accounting Standards Committee, 1969-1990

   By B.A. Rutherford

   Written by a well-known author, this book makes a major contribution to the history of financial reporting, exploring the current and international aspects of standard setting. Compiled through consultation of a considerable amount of relevant literature and interviews with a large number of key...

   2007 | 978-0-415-39421-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Mark to Market Accounting: 'True North' in Financial Reporting

    By Walter P. Schuetze

    Edited by Peter W. Wolnizer

    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...

    2007 | 978-0-415-43985-5 | Paperback (Routledge)