Accountancy and Empire: The British Legacy of Professional Organization

ISBN-13: 9780415457712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 266 str.

Chris Poullaos;Suki Sian

Opis

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 has examined profession-state engagements between Britain, on the one hand and Canada, South Africa, Australia, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, India and Kenya, and the other with a view to assessing how the organizations of accountancy in the colonies was affecting the metropolitan profession and state agents- and vice versa. Their contributions highlight the peculiarities of the professionalization processes in variant social, economic and political environments linked together by the relays of empire, prompting reflection on both the common and disparate dynamics involved. This book has numerous objectives, including giving historical insight and focus on countries that provide contrasting and variant examples of the uptake of the "British model," and broadening the appeal of accounting history and professionalisation as a taught subject in university accounting departments.

Spis treści

1. Accountancy and Empire: Setting the Stage Suki Sian and Chris Poullaos  2. The Self-Governing Dominions of South Africa, Australia and Canada and the Evolution of the Imperial Accountancy Arena during the 1920s Chris Poullaos  3. Canada between Empires Alan J. Richardson  4. Colonial Heritage and the Accounting Profession in Nigeria Chibuike U. Uche  5. The Malaysian Accountancy Profession and its Imperial Legacy (1957-1995) Devi S. Susela  6.  The Imperial Roots of Accounting Closure: The Case of Sri Lanka P.W. Senerath Yapa  7. Imperialism and Professionalization: The Case of Accountancy in Jamaica Owalabi M. Bakre  8. Maintaining Empire: The Practice Link in Trinidad and Tobago Marcia Annisette  9. The Influence of Empire on the Establishment of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) After Independence Shraddha Verma  10. Between the Lines: The Professionalization of Accountancy in Kenya Suki Sian  11. Accountancy and Empire: Connections, Patterns and Suggestions Chris Poullaos and Suki Sian

O autorze

Chris Poullaos is an Associate Professor in Accounting at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has completed a PhD on the professionalization of accountancy in Australia at the University of New South Wales. His subsequent work on the professionalization of accounting in Australia, Britain, Canada, the Phillipines and South Africa has appeared in Abacus, Accounting Organizations and Society, Accounting Auditing and Accountability, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and in several monographs.

Suki Sian is a chartered accountant and holds a PhD from the University of Aberdeen and an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. She most recently lectured at Cardiff University, UK, where she was also a member of the Accounting History Group. She was awarded the Vangermeersch Manuscript Award in 2006 for her paper on the professionalization of accountancy in Kenya.