ABSTRACT
The study of accounting history is beginning to flourish. Following the success of the first world congress of accounting historians held in Brussels in 1970, the newly founded (American) Academy of Accounting Historians organized, in 1976, a second international congress in Atlanta, Georgia and, in 1977, launched The Accounting Historians' Journal. The Arno Press of New York is reprinting accounting classics and producing numerous useful anthologies. In the U.K. the Accounting History Society organized the third international congress held at the London Business School in August 1980. Fifty papers from 14 countries were delivered. The Scottish Committee on Accounting History has published several useful books, e.g. Pryce-Jones and Parker (1976); Stewart (1977). The editors of such influential academic journals as The Accounting Review, Abacus and Accounting and Business Research number accounting history among their major research interests.
