The Priesthood of Industry documents the history of the rise of accountants in the United Kingdom to their present position as the dominant professional grouping in the boardroom and in the top echelons of British management. Focusing on the individual professional accountant, the authors adopt an economic determinist analysis to explain the rise of public practice and the routes by which staff transferred to industry in increasing numbers. They also identify demand and supply side factors to explain the professional accountant's present hegemony in business management. In addition, the book traces the origins of the major professional bodies and the evolution of `family trees' of the `Big Six' accountancy firms.

The Priesthood of Industry: The Rise of the Professional Accountant in British Management

Business & Money

Matthews, Derek

Anderson, Malcolm

Edwards, John Richard

Biography & History

Oxford University Press

A History of Corporate Financial Reporting in Britain (Routledge Studies in Accounting)

Routledge

Accounting, Business and Financial History is a major recent journal, publishing interdisciplinary research in the accounting, business and financial history fields. ABFH is concerned with how organizational structures, management, accounting data and economic conditions influence businesses and thus the overall performance of the economy. This special issue of the journal ABFH celebrates the 500th anniversary of the publication of Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proporttioni et Proportionalita, which contained the first detailed description of the operation of a system of double entry bookkeeping. The articles in this special issue examine the historical development and recording of double entry bookkeeping.

Accounting, Business and Financial History: Special Issue: from Clay Tokens to Fukushiki-Boki - Record Keeping Over 10 Millennia (Accounting, Business and Financial History Journal)

Yamey, Basil S.

International Thomson Business Press

  A History of Corporate Financial Reporting provides an understanding of the procedures and practices which constitute corporate financial reporting in Britain, at different points of time, and how and why those practices changed and became what they are now. Its particular focus is the external financial reporting practices of joint stock companies. This is worth knowing about given the widely held view that Britain (i) pioneered modern financial reporting, and (ii) played a primary role in the development of both capital markets and professional accountancy. The book makes use of a principal and agent framework to study accounting’s past, but one where the failure of managers always to supply the information that users’ desire is given full recognition. It is shown that corporate financial reporting did not develop into its current state in a straightforward and orderly fashion. Each era produces different environmental conditions and imposes new demands on accounting. A proper understanding of accounting developments therefore requires a careful examination of the interrelationship between accountants and accounting techniques on the one hand and, on the other, the social and economic context within which changes took place.  The book’s corporate coverage starts with the legendary East India Company, created in 1600, and continues through the heyday of the statutory trading companies founded to build Britain’s canals (commencing in the 1770s) and railways (commencing c.1829) to focus, principally, on the limited liability company fashioned by the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 and the Limited Liability Act 1855. The story terminates in 2005 when listed companies were required to prepare their consolidated accounts in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, thus signalling the effective end of British accounting.

Accounting

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