1st Edition

The Birth of Industrial Accounting in France and Britain

By Trevor Boyns, John R. Edwards Copyright 1998
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1998. The area examined in this book falls loosely under the category of 'accounting integration' where research should explain how the accounting systems in both countries are designed to integrate cost and financial accounting. The authors of this book had previously been working independently on the early development of accounting for industrial enterprises within their own... Read more
Chapter 1 Setting the scene; Chapter 2 Economic development and the development of accounting; Chapter 3 The development of accounting literature prior to 1880; Chapter 4 Developments in industrial accounting practice in Britain and France, c.1700-c.1880; Chapter 5 Similarities and differences in accounting literature and accounting practice: some tentative explanations;

Biography

Trevor Boyns, John Richard Edwards, Marc Nikitin