A history of management accounting : the British experience / Trevor Boyns and John Richard Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyns, Trevor.

Contributor:

Edwards, J. R.

Series:

Routledge New Works in Accounting History

Routledge new works in accounting history ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Accounting--Great Britain--History.

Accounting.

Managerial accounting--Great Britain--History.

Managerial accounting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 that can be used in classrooms, to inform new researchers, and to provide a source of reference for established researchers.The great deal of research into cost and management accounting in Britain published in academic journals over the last twenty years-including the authors' own contributions-makes The

Contents:

A History of Management Accounting The British Experience; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Structure and Methodology; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical and Explanatory Framework; Part II Late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution; 3 Estate and Farm Accounting; 4 Merchants' Accounts; 5 Pre-Industrial Revolution Cost Calculation and Management Accounting; Part III Industrial Revolution to c.1970; 6 Industrial Development, c.1760-c.1870; 7 The Second Industrial Revolution, c.1870-c.1918

8 Professionalisation, c.1919-c.19709 Cost Calculation to Management Accounting, c.1919-c.1970; 10 Reflections; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-339) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-23265-6

0-203-10087-5

1-283-84497-4

1-136-23266-4

9780203100875

OCLC:

821176338