By Various
February 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1986, collects together the papers presented at the Fifth International Congress on Accounting in 1938. Cutting edge research at the time, these analyses now form an integral part of the history of accounting....
By Patti A. Mills
February 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1988, is an English translation of the sixteenth-century Spanish treatise Tratado de Cuentas or On Accounts by Diego del Castillo. The broad purpose of this work is to make this treatise and the issues it raises in accounting history better known. Despite its ...
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By Julia Grant
February 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1995, presents a convenient resource which contains a cross-section of education issues, topics and biographies, identified with the acceptance and development of Certified Public Accountancy in New York State, USA....
By Various
February 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1954, collects together the papers presented to the Sixth International Congress on Accounting. They focus on the problems of the post-war changes in the value of money, and how to deal with this in accounting statements; taxation, and the role of accountants in ...
By Stephen P. Walker
February 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1988, provides an analysis of recruitment to the new profession of nineteenth-century accountancy, and in doing so, gives an insight into the complex origins and behaviour of the emergent professional classes. Unlike most studies, this is a study of all recruits, not ...
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By Stephen A. Zeff
February 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1988, analyses the early development of the US public accounting profession. It gathers in one place writings – contemporary accounts, recollections and historical studies – that portray the early decades of the profession. It is a key book for students of the early ...
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By Thomas A. Lee
February 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1984, is concerned mainly with papers published in various Transactions of the Chartered Accountants Students’ Societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Many of these lectures were given by eminent accountants from throughout the UK, and soon the activities of the Societies ...
By Anne Loft
February 15, 2022
Underlying this book, first published in 1988, is the belief that it is insightful to examine accounting not as merely a technical process, nor as a technical process with social and political consequences, but as an activity which is both social and political in itself. One way of illuminating the...
By Kees Camfferman
February 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1997, analyses the development of Dutch financial reporting. A process of change in international financial reporting began in the early 1960s, and this book examines the roles of voluntary and legislated improvements on financial information disclosure....
By Various
September 07, 2020
This set gathers together 45 out-of-print works examining many areas in accounting history. Books analyse recent events in accounting, as well as focus on the very earliest days of the profession and its subsequent development. Key figures and their ideas are discussed as is the evolution of ...