Accounting History: Some British Contributions

ISBN-13: 9780198288862 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 672 str.

R. H. Parker; Basil S. Yamey; Marilyn Parker

Opis

In recent years there has been increasing interest in the history and development of accounting practices. Accounting records are an important source of historical data, and they can also provide evidence of varied organizational structures and systems of management control. Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica (1494), this volume brings together work by leading British scholars in the field and is an important contribution to accounting scholarship.

Recenzje

Professors Parker and Yamey, in an extensive work, provide us with fascinating contributions to accounting scholarship ... The collection, as entertaining as it is relevant to our present time of rapid accounting change, is highly recommended ... The book invites the attention of all accounting historians and wishes we would value each others' contributions. It is a fine invitation; we should not hesitate to accept ... Here is a history of many of the frequent small developments of accounting techniques, by authors too often unknown, which provide our profession benchmarks of progress, feathers on our arrow of time. The case for historical perspective is never better made than in this book.