The emergence of an accountancy profession in Scotland is described in the context of three leading Chartered Accountants, whose careers spanned the second half

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

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

This volume presents a survey of accountancy from early times through to modern accounting methods of the early twentieth century. Covering everything from acco

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