Routledge New Works in Accounting History
About the Book Series
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.
Professionalism and Accounting Rules
1st Edition
By Brian P. West
February 05, 2015
This book investigates the issues raised by the vast array of accounting standards and technical rules which have marked the recent history of accounting. It is argued that the accounting profession is beset by an inferior and incomplete notion of quality in its work which emphasises compliance ...
The Institute of Accounts
1st Edition
By Stephen E. Loeb, Paul J. Miranti
February 05, 2015
This book focuses upon the Institute of Accounts (IA), an organization to which the modern United States accounting profession can trace its roots. The IA was organized in the early 1880s in New York City and, as discussed in this book, attracted a diverse membership that included some of the ...
A History of Auditing: The Changing Audit Process in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
1st Edition
By Derek Matthews
March 21, 2013
The rise of the British accountancy profession from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and the world-wide success of its accountancy firms, were to a large extent based on the growth of the audit function. This book explores the history of the audit process in Britain, demonstrating ...
Accounting Theory: Essays by Carl Thomas Devine
1st Edition
Edited
By Harvey Hendrickson, Paul Williams
June 28, 2012
One of the outstanding accounting theoreticians of the twentieth century, Carl Thomas Devine exhibited a breadth and depth of knowledge few in the field of accounting have equalled. This book collects together eight previously unpublished essays on accounting theory written by Professor Devine. ...
Two Hundred Years of Accounting Research
1st Edition
By Richard Mattessich
February 08, 2011
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 ...
Double Accounting for Goodwill: A Problem Redefined
1st Edition
By Martin Bloom
December 21, 2009
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 ...
Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting: A User-Oriented Approach
1st Edition
By Paul Rosenfield
June 16, 2009
With the collapse of Enron and other similar scandals, financial reporting and its relation to corporate governance has become a contentious issue. In this revealing book, author Paul Rosenfield involves the reader in exploring contemporary financial reporting and skilfully highlights the ...
Double Entry Bookkeeping in British Central Government, 1822-1856
1st Edition
Edited
By Hugh Coombs, John R. Edwards, Hugh Greener
December 01, 1997
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Contributions of Limperg & Schmidt to the Replacement Cost Debate in the 1920s
1st Edition
By Frank L. Clarke, Graeme Dean
February 01, 1991
This book, first published in 1990, examines the works of Theodore Limberg and Fritz Schmidt and their contribution to the development of the case for replacement price valuations. It analyses which of Limberg's and Schmidt's contributions was the most prominent and whether either was the genesis ...
Local Authority Accounting Methods: The Early Debate, 1884-1908
1st Edition
By Hugh J. Coombs, John Edwards
February 01, 1991
This book contains a collection of papers dealing with a range of controversial issues which exercised the minds of local authority officials from 1884-1908. The 28 items reproduced cover a wide range of matters. They are presented chronologically because many of the papers deal with more than one ...