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The Routledge companion to accounting history / edited by John Richard Edwards and Stephen P. Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge companions in business, management and accounting
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Accounting--History.
- Accounting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 619 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- Summary:
- The Routledge Companion to Accounting History presents a single-volume synthesis of research in this expanding field, exploring and analysing accounting from ancient civilizations to the modern day.No longer perceived as the narrow study of how a mysterious technique was used in past, the scope of accounting history has widened.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: synthesis and engagement
- PART I: The discipline
- 1. Structures, territories and tribes
- 2. Historiography
- 3. Subjects, sources and dissemination
- PART II: Technologies
- 4. Ancient accounting
- 5. Bookkeeping
- 6. Mechanisation, computerisation and information systems
- PART III: Theory and practice
- 7. Financial accounting theory
- 8. Financial accounting practice
- 9. Management accounting: theory and practice
- 10. Auditing
- PART IV: Institutions
- 11. Professionalisation
- 12. Accounting practitioners, work and organisations
- 13. Education
- 14. Regulation
- PART V: Economy
- 15. Agriculture
- 16. Mercantilism
- 17. Capitalism
- 18. Railroads
- 19. National accounting
- 20. Scandals
- PART VI: Society and culture
- 21. Gender
- 22. Race and ethnicity
- 23. Colonialism and indigenous peoples
- 24. Emancipation
- 25. Religion
- 26. Creative arts
- PART VII: Polity
- 27. The state
- 28. Military
- 29. Taxation
- Index.
- Notes:
- "First edition published by Routledge 2008."
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-351-23886-8
- 1-351-23888-4
- 9781351238885
- OCLC:
- 1152595569
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