This book explores certain contemporary problems of accounting through the eyes and pens of historians. Many accounting problems are not new ones and it is ther
The contributions in this book, most of which are not widely available, discuss the evolution of financial reporting at a time when it was rare for companies to
This book is concerned with the financial accounting and reporting of publicly owned corporations to their shareholders. It examines the origins of financial ac
Global in scope, accounting has had its share of great thinkers and practitioners, from Luca Pacioloi, the father of accounting, to R. J. Chambers, W. W. Cooper