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11. The Interface of Accounting Education and Professional Training

    Edited by Elaine Evans, Roger Juchau, Richard M.S. Wilson

    Series: Special issue books from 'Accounting Education: an international journal'

    Over many decades the global development of professional accounting education programmes has been undertaken by higher education institutions, professional accounting bodies, and employers. These institutions have sometimes co-operated and sometimes been in conflict over the education and/or...

    Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
12. Two Hundred Years of Accounting Research

    By Richard Mattessich

    Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

    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...

    Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
13. Profitability, Accounting Theory and Methodology

    The Selected Essays of Geoffrey Whittington

    By Geoffrey Whittington

    Series: Routledge Historical Perspectives in Accounting

    An important scholar in the history of accounting, Geoffrey Whittington's numerous articles cover a broad spectrum of the field and are both sharply insightful and extremely significant. He has made important contributions to the topics of inflation accounting, accounting theory and methodology and...

    Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
14. Accountancy and Empire

    The British Legacy of Professional Organization

    Edited by Chris Poullaos, Suki Sian

    Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

    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...

    Published May 19th 2010 by Routledge
15. Double Accounting for Goodwill

    A Problem Redefined

    By Martin Bloom

    Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

    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...

    Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
16. The Routledge Companion to Accounting History

    Edited by John Richard Edwards, Stephen P. Walker

    Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

    The Routledge Companion to Accounting History shows how the seemingly innocuous practice of accounting has pervaded human existence in fascinating ways at numerous times and places; from ancient civilisations to the modern day, and from the personal to the political. Placing the history of...

    Published July 20th 2008 by Routledge
17. Mark to Market Accounting

    'True North' in Financial Reporting

    By Walter P. Schuetze

    Edited by Peter W. Wolnizer

    This Volume, edited by Peter W. Wolnizer, Professor of Accounting at the University of Sydney, makes available the collected writings of Walter P. Scheutze, a senior accounting practitioner. The articles, speeches and letters collected here probe the most fundamental problems of corporate financial...

    Published February 27th 2007 by Routledge
18. The Development of the American Public Accounting Profession

    Scottish Chartered Accountants and the Early American Public Accountancy Profession

    By T.A. Lee

    Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

    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...

    Published July 13th 2006 by Routledge
19. Accounting Standards: True or False?

    By R.A. Rayman

    Following a spate of high-profile financial scandals (including Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat), the quality of financial information has come under increasing scrutiny. Many of the accounting standards being imposed on the profession by regulators and standard-setting bodies are now attracting...

    Published November 16th 2005 by Routledge
20. Accounting, Accountants and Accountability

    By Norman Macintosh

    Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

    In the business world, recent years have seen a growing acknowledgement of the value of intangible assets rather than physical assets. This has precipitated a crisis in the accounting industry: the accounting representations relied upon for years can no longer be taken for granted. Here, ...

    Published October 31st 2005 by Routledge