ABSTRACT

The journal Accounting History was published in eight volumes intermittently between 1976 and 1986. It had a relatively small circulation and this re-issue of its anthology provides the opportunity for many of the articles which appeared in the journal over the years to once again reach a wider audience. The volume begins with items of a general nature, covering the importance of preserving accounting records and accounting history in general. Subsequent categories deal with the methodology of historical accounting research, government accounting, taxation, bankruptcy, professional accountancy and accounting theory, as well as auditing and management accounting.

part |17 pages

General

part

Firm/Industry Studies

chapter |11 pages

The Records of an Incorporated Baker's Guild

With reference to prices, costs and audits

chapter |19 pages

A Nineteenth Century Welsh Iron Company

Profit Measurement, 1831–1860 An Example

chapter |17 pages

“Accounting for Beer”

An investigation into the accounting practice of three Northamptonshire breweries, 1882 to 1914.

part

Bibliographies/Biographies

chapter |5 pages

Some Anniversaries

chapter |17 pages

Daniel Defoe: Accomptant

chapter |4 pages

Alfred Allott — 1824–1901

A Profile on the activities of a founder council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

part

Miscellaneous

chapter |11 pages

Early C. A. Apprentices

Notes on the first hundred indentures of apprenticeship recorded in the Register of Apprentices of the Society of Accountants in Edinburgh (1854 – 1863)