Title The Society of Accountants in Edinburgh, 1854-1914 : a study of recruitment to a new profession / Stephen P. Walker

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge library editions. Accounting history ; volume 40 Routledge library editions. Accounting history ; v. 40 Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Defining the Boundaries: The Choice of Period, Locale and Profession -- The Growth, Development and Status of the Society of Accountants in Edinburgh -- Operationalization -- 2. The Determinants of Recruitment to the Society of Accountants in Edinburgh -- Reconstructive Model of Trends in CAs' Major Sources of Business -- Oversupply -- SAE Migration as a Consequence of Oversupply Professionalization and the Recruitment Policy of the SAE -- The Social Forces of Occupational Expansion -- The Supply of Recruits to the Society of Accountants in Edinburgh 1854-1914 -- 3. Career Selection: Why Chartered Accountancy? -- Familial Determinants of Occupational Choice -- Educational Influences in Vocational Decision-Making -- Published Occupational Information -- Pre-Apprenticeship Work Experience : Job Rehearsal -- Residential and Spatial Connections -- 4. Occupational Preparation: Apprenticeship and Examination -- The Choice of Master Pre-Apprenticeship Training and the Duration of the Indenture -- Age -- The Location of the Indenture -- The Cautioner -- Apprenticeship Fees -- Remuneration -- The Experience of Apprenticeship -- The SAE Examination System of 1855-73 -- The 1873-93 Examination System -- The General Examining Board 1893 Onwards -- The Examined -- University Law Classes -- 5. Vocational Success and Failure: Professional Training, Qualification and Careers -- The Failure Rate 1837-1914 -- Demographic Factors in Vocational Success and Failure : Mortality and Morbidity Demographic Factors in Vocational Success and Failure : Fertility and the Distribution of Familial Resources -- The Occupation and Social Status of the Apprentice's Father -- Education -- Pre-Apprenticeship Employment -- Spatial Factors in Vocational Success -- Masters and the Office of Apprenticeship -- Qualification -- The Determinants of a Successful Career -- 6. The Limits to Self-Recruitment: Marriage and Fertility -- Celibacy -- Age at Marriage -- Fertility -- 7. Self-Recruitment and Social Mobility -- Potential Mobility Assuming Perfect Self-Recruitment Potential Mobility Not Assuming Perfect Self-Recruitment -- The Supply of Vacant Statuses and Social Mobility -- 8. Conclusions -- Appendices -- A. Occupational and Status Group Classification -- B. Classification of Schools Attended by SAE Apprentices -- C. Place of Birth of SAE Members and Apprentices 1837-1914 -- D. Selected Documents Illustrative of the Organizational Development of the SAE and the System of Recruitment and Qualification -- List of Abbreviations -- Selected Bibliography -- Indexes Summary This book, first published in 1988, provides an analysis of recruitment to the new profession of nineteenth-century accountancy, and in doing so, gives an insight into the complex origins and behaviour of the emergent professional classes. Unlike most studies, this is a study of all recruits, not only of those who succeeded in becoming qualified. This permits an analysis of the whole process of recruitment, including the choice of accountancy as a career option and as a vehicle of social mobility Notes "First published in 1988 by Garland Publishing, Inc." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Stephen P. Walker Subject Society of Accountants in Edinburgh -- History SUBJECT Society of Accountants in Edinburgh fast Subject Accounting -- Scotland -- History Accountants -- Scotland -- History Accounting -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History Accountants -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General. Accountants Accounting Scotland Scotland -- Edinburgh Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000167818 100016781X 9781000167634 1000167631 9781003046233 1003046231 9781000167726 1000167720

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