Doing Accounting History: Contributions to the Development of Accounting Thought

ISBN-13: 9780762309832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 240 str.

Richard K. Fleischman;Vaughan S. Radcliffe;Paul A.R.K. Shoemaker

Opis

This is a collection of eleven essays authored by prominent accounting historians and designed to aid potential as well as experienced researchers in the methodologies and resources available for scholarly work in accounting history. and backing of the Academy of Accounting Historians. Chapters on resources include the finding and utilization of archival materials (including ancient forms); the growing importance of the Internet in historical research and the Accounting Research Database as a vital, contemporary finding aid; the possibilities for joint venturing with accounting practitioners and their organizations; and the pivotal influence and immediacy of oral history. research; the synergistic relationships that exist between accounting and economic history, including business history and capital-markets research; the techniques for doing biography; and the issues involved in writing to historical paradigms.