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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808546203321

Autore

Boyns Trevor

Titolo

A history of management accounting : the British experience / / Trevor Boyns and John Richard Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2013

ISBN

1-136-23265-6

0-203-10087-5

1-283-84497-4

1-136-23266-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Collana

Routledge new works in accounting history ; ; 12

Altri autori (Persone)

EdwardsJ. R

Disciplina

658.15/110941

Soggetti

Accounting - Great Britain - History

Managerial accounting - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-339) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A History of Management Accounting The British Experience; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Structure and Methodology; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical and Explanatory Framework; Part II Late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution; 3 Estate and Farm Accounting; 4 Merchants' Accounts; 5 Pre-Industrial Revolution Cost Calculation and Management Accounting; Part III Industrial Revolution to c.1970; 6 Industrial Development, c.1760-c.1870; 7 The Second Industrial Revolution, c.1870-c.1918

8 Professionalisation, c.1919-c.19709 Cost Calculation to Management Accounting, c.1919-c.1970; 10 Reflections; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

There is growing interest in the history of accounting amongst both accounting practitioners and accounting academics. This interest developed steadily from about 1970 and really 'took off' in the 1990s. However, there is a lack of texts dealing with major aspects of accounting history that can be used in classrooms, to inform new researchers, and to provide a source of reference for established researchers.The great deal of research into cost and management accounting in Britain published in academic journals over the last



twenty years-including the authors' own contributions-makes The