This anthology comprises a selection of articles which demonstrates the explanatory potential of company records as source material for the accounting historian

The articles and papers reprinted in this volume, all written after 1970, represent a departure from the earlier conventional notion of accounting history resea

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The accounting provisions of the Companies Act 1948 (CA48) represented a major change from the provisions of preceding company legislation, the Companies Act 19

This compilation concerns account books, not books on accounting. Most of the essays analyse the account book(s) of a single person or business. In each case th