Routledge New Works in Accounting History
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A History of Management Accounting
The British Experience
Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History
There is growing interest in the history of accounting amongst both accounting practitioners and accounting academics. This interest developed steadily from about 1970 and really ‘took off’ in the 1990s. However, there is a lack of texts dealing with major aspects of accounting history...
Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Critical Histories of Accounting
Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era
Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History
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...
Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
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Accountancy and Empire
The British Legacy of Professional Organization
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
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Double Accounting for Goodwill
A Problem Redefined
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 June 15th 2008 by Routledge
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Two Hundred Years of Accounting Research
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 November 14th 2007 by Routledge
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The Development of the American Public Accounting Profession
Scottish Chartered Accountants and the Early American Public Accountancy Profession
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
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Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting
A User-Oriented Approach
Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History
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...
Published March 29th 2006 by Routledge
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A History of Auditing
The Changing Audit Process in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History
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...
Published January 11th 2006 by Routledge