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Author Edwards, Richard

Title A History of Cost and Management Accounting
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (371 pages)
Series Routledge New Works in Accounting History
Routledge new works in accounting history.
Contents A History of Management Accounting The British Experience; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Structure and Methodology; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical and Explanatory Framework; Part II Late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution; 3 Estate and Farm Accounting; 4 Merchants' Accounts; 5 Pre-Industrial Revolution Cost Calculation and Management Accounting; Part III Industrial Revolution to c.1970; 6 Industrial Development, c.1760-c.1870; 7 The Second Industrial Revolution, c.1870-c.1918
8 Professionalisation, c.1919-c.19709 Cost Calculation to Management Accounting, c.1919-c.1970; 10 Reflections; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary There is growing interest in the history of accounting amongst both accounting practitioners and accounting academics. This interest developed steadily from about 1970 and really 'took off' in the 1990s. However, there is a lack of texts dealing with major aspects of accounting history that can be used in classrooms, to inform new researchers, and to provide a source of reference for established researchers. The great deal of research into cost and management accounting in Britain published in academic journals over the last twenty years-including the authors' own contributions-makes The Histor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-339) and index
Subject Accounting -- Great Britain -- History
Managerial accounting -- Great Britain -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Accounting -- Managerial.
Accounting
Managerial accounting
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Boyns, Trevor
ISBN 9781136232664
1136232664