This book is a resource book for the comprehensive study of the development of accounting thought. It is designed to facilitate the study of the original works

Written over a period of twenty years the papers included here reflect the changing circumstances around the study of accounting history.

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

When originally published in 1994 this volume was the first international review of accounting theory to focus on the contributions of its leading thinkers. Ver

The history of accounting in Australia is of interest because it provides an opportunity to examine how accounting techniques, institutions and concepts have be