Product Description: The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline’s academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned Sarbanes-Oxley and the world-wide recession...read more

Product Description: The Routledge Companion to Accounting History shows how the seemingly innocuous practice of accounting has pervaded human existence in fascinating ways at numerous times and places; from ancient civilisations to the modern day, and from the personal to the political...read more

Product Description: This text aims to provide an in-depth review of recent historical research on the emergence and maturation of institutionalized public accountancy in Scotland from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Individual contributions cover a range of historical studies including the original foundations and founders, the early competitive struggles with other bodies, the nature of Victorian public practice, individual successes and failures, and the gender issue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The dramatic and tragic story of St. Louis' notorious Lemp brewery and family. The intriguing Lemp saga has everything: suicides, court battles, and, yep, even Lemp ghosts! This is truly a great read.

Product Description: First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.