Studies of Company Records (Rle Accounting) - 1830-1974

List of contents

The Most Universal Quality: Some Nineteenth Century Audit Reports; The Accounting Profession and Disclosure in Published Reports, 1925–1935; Dowlais Iron Company: Accounting Policies and Procedures for Profit Measurement and Reporting Purposes; British Capital Accounting Practices and Business Finance 1852–1919 : An Exemplification 1; Company Legislation and Changing Patterns of Disclosure in British Company Accounts 1900–1940; Discounted Cash Flow and Business Valuation in a Nineteenth Century Merger: A Note; The Influence of Company Law on Corporate Reporting Procedures, 1865–1929: An Exemplification; The Development of Group Accounting in the United Kingdom to 1933; Depreciation in Published Company Reports; The Development of Modern Financial Reporting Practices among American Manufacturing Corporations; Fifty Years of Company Accounts; Company Financial Statements as Source Material for Business Historians; Railway Auditing—A Report of 1867; Annual Reports in the United States: a Historical Perspective

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Summary

This anthology comprises a selection of articles which demonstrates the explanatory potential of company records as source material for the accounting historian. They were published in the UK and the USA between 1954 and 1984. The articles reproduced are based on the records of what is the modern business enterprise and they identify and explain the development of external financial reporting procedures.

Product details

• Authors: J. Edwards, J. R. Edwards
• Assisted by: J. Edwards (Editor), J. R. Edwards (Editor), Edwards J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2016
• EAN: 9781138983304
• ISBN: 978-1-138-98330-4
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Accounting; Routledge Library Editions: Accounting
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Business & Economics / General, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Financial, business strategy, Financial Accounting