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A History of Management Accounting: The British Experience book cover

1st Edition

A History of Management Accounting The British Experience

By Richard Edwards, Trevor Boyns Copyright 2013
352 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 that can be used in classrooms, to inform new researchers, and to provide a source of reference for... Read more

Part I: Structure and Methodology  1. Introduction  2. Theoretical and Explanatory Framework  Part II: Late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution  3. Estate and Farm Accounting  4. Merchants’ Accounts  5. Pre-industrial Revolution Cost Calculation and Management Accounting  Part III: Industrial Revolution to C.1970  6. Industrial Development c.1760-c.1870  7. The Second Industrial Revolution c.1870-c.1918  8. Professionalisation, c.1919-c.1970  9. Cost Calculation to Management Accounting c.1919-c.1970  10. Reflections  Notes  Bibliography  Index

Biography

John Richard Edwards is Professor of Accounting at Cardiff University, UK.

Trevor Boyns is Professor of Accounting and Business History at Cardiff University, UK.

Winner of the Barbara D. Merino Award for Excellence in Accounting History Publication from the Academy of Accounting Historians, 2014

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