Here, the editors have hand-selected a series of historical and contemporary episodes that have been critically investigated by the wider accounting history community, preceded by a thorough introduction.
Here, the editors have hand-selected a series of historical and contemporary episodes that have been critically investigated by the wider accounting h...
Warwick Funnell Stephen Walker Richard K. Fleischman
The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline's academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned Sarbanes-Oxley and the world-wide recession. Certain contemporary issues have long histories, such as the difficulties encountered by women to break the glass ceiling in public accounting, and the suffering of indigenous peoples under the imperialistic yoke. Other episodes in accounting's long...
The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline's academic scholarship. Some critical li...
