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Routledge New Works in Accounting History

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This innovative series contains volumes on accounting history, auditing, bibliography, development of accounting principles and standards, education and ethics, financial reporting, law and regulations, management accounting and the theoretical works of leading scholars. Providing students, teachers and researchers with the opportunity to learn more about the discipline of accountancy and its past, this series is a vital addition to any accounting library.

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Internal Accounting Control Evaluation and Auditor Judgement An Anthology

Internal Accounting Control Evaluation and Auditor Judgement: An Anthology

1st Edition

By Theodore J. Mock, Jerry L. Turner
July 21, 2016

This anthology presents the results of a comprehensive empirical study of internal control evaluation and auditor judgment initiated by Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in 1977 and originally published as an American Institute of CPAs research monograph in 1981, which was awarded the American ...

The Decision Usefulness Theory of Accounting A Limited History

The Decision Usefulness Theory of Accounting: A Limited History

1st Edition

By George J. Staubus
July 04, 2016

This book ties together selected contributions by George Staubus to the early development of the decision-usefulness theory of financial accounting--the theory that has become generally accepted accounting theory in the last half of the twentieth century and is the basis for the FASB's conceptual ...

Accounting History from the Renaissance to the Present A Remembrance of Luca Pacioli

Accounting History from the Renaissance to the Present: A Remembrance of Luca Pacioli

1st Edition

Edited By T. A. Lee, A. Bishop, R. H. Parker
April 27, 2016

First published in 1996. This book summarises the Seminar held in Edinburgh in 1994 in the five hundredth year since the publication of Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita. Its purpose is simple but relevant to every accountant. It revisits some ...

Chambers on Accounting Logic, Law and Ethics

Chambers on Accounting: Logic, Law and Ethics

1st Edition

By R.J. Chambers, Graeme W. Dean
April 27, 2016

This volume is dedicated to the life work of Ray Chambers, who was continually seeking ways to stimulate and advance the development of a demonstrably rigorous and serviceable system of accounting. This search for an ideal led Chambers into myriad environments, an aspect of his life exhaustively ...

Pastoral Accounting in Colonial Australia A Case Study of Unregulated Accounting

Pastoral Accounting in Colonial Australia: A Case Study of Unregulated Accounting

1st Edition

By Garry Carnegie
February 29, 2016

First Published in 1997. Set in colonial Australia, this explanatory, investigative study examines the dimensions of accounting information prepared for pastoral industry engagement in the Western District of Victoria during 1836-1900 and the local, time-specific environmental factors which shaped ...

The Beginnings of Accounting and Accounting Thought Accounting Practice in the Middle East (8000 B.C to 2000 B.C.) and Accounting Thought in India (300 B.C. and the Middle Ages)

The Beginnings of Accounting and Accounting Thought: Accounting Practice in the Middle East (8000 B.C to 2000 B.C.) and Accounting Thought in India (300 B.C. and the Middle Ages)

1st Edition

By Richard Mattessich
February 29, 2016

Based on recent archaeological, historical and accounting research, this book presents a series of well-supported, but often surprising hypotheses on the 10,000 year-old history of accounting. Mattessich also illustrates the astounding sophistication manifested in some of the accounting and ...

A Conceptual Framework for Financial Accounting and Reporting Vision, Tool, or Threat?

A Conceptual Framework for Financial Accounting and Reporting: Vision, Tool, or Threat?

1st Edition

By Richard Macve
January 20, 2016

First published in 1997. This volume is a collection of studies that look at the ‘conceptual framework’ undertaken initially for the UK’s Accounting Standards Committee (‘ASC’), and to consider how far the views expressed in them have stood the test of time as standard setters around the world have...

Critical Histories of Accounting Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era

Critical Histories of Accounting: Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era

1st Edition

Edited By Richard K. Fleischman, Warwick Funnell, Stephen Walker
December 17, 2015

The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline’s academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned ...

Clean Surplus A Link Between Accounting and Finance

Clean Surplus: A Link Between Accounting and Finance

1st Edition

Edited By Richard P. Brief, K. V. Peasnell
December 07, 2015

First published in 1996. The relationship between the present discounted value of future cash flows and discounted excess earnings should be viewed as a mathematical property of a double-entry book[1]keeping system based on clean surplus. The purpose of this anthology is to facilitate future ...

Accountancy and Empire The British Legacy of Professional Organization

Accountancy and Empire: The British Legacy of Professional Organization

1st Edition

Edited By Chris Poullaos, Suki Sian
August 25, 2015

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 ...

The Birth of Industrial Accounting in France and Britain

The Birth of Industrial Accounting in France and Britain

1st Edition

By Trevor Boyns, John R. Edwards
June 23, 2015

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 ...

The Development of the American Public Accounting Profession Scottish Chartered Accountants and the Early American Public Accountancy Profession

The Development of the American Public Accounting Profession: Scottish Chartered Accountants and the Early American Public Accountancy Profession

1st Edition

By T.A. Lee
April 09, 2015

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 ...

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