Introduction: Synthesis and Engagement (John Richard Edwards and Stephen P. Walker) Part 1: The Discipline 1. Structures, Territories and Tribes (Stephen P. Walker) 2. Historiography (Christopher J. Napier) 3. Subjects, Sources and Dissemination (John Richard Edwards) Part 2: Technologies 4. Ancient Accounting (Salvador Carmona and Mahmoud Ezzamel) 5. Bookkeeping (David Oldroyd and Alisdair Dobie) 6. Mechanisation and Computerisation (Charles W. Wootton and Barbara E. Kemmerer) Part 3: Theory and Practice 7. Financial Accounting Theory (Thomas A. Lee) 8. Financial Accounting Practice (Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh) 9. Management Accounting: Theory and Practice (Richard Fleischman) 10. Auditing (Josephine Maltby) Part 4: Institutions 11. Professionalisation (Chris Poullas) 12. Practitioners, Work and Firms (David J. Cooper and Keith Robson) 13. Education (Fiona Anderson-Gough) 14. Regulation (Alan J. Richardson) Part 5: Economy 15. Capitalism (Steven Toms) 16. National Accounting (Ignace de Beelde) 17. Finance and Financial Institutions (Janette Rutterford) 18. Railroads (Dale L. Flesher and Gary J. Previts) 19. Scandals (Thomas A. Lee, Frank L. Clarke and Graeme W. Dean) Part 6: Society and Culture 20. Gender (Rihab Khalifa and Linda M. Kirkham) 21. Race and Ethnicity (Marcia Annisette) 22. Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism (Susan Greer and Dean Neu) 23. Emancipation (Sonja Gallhofer and Jim Haslam) 24. Religion (Salvador Carmona and Mahmoud Ezzamel) 25. Creative Arts (Sam McKinstry) Part 7: Polity 26. The State (Philip Colquhoun) 27. Military (Warwick Funnell) 28. Taxation (Margaret Lamb)
John Richard Edwards is a Professor of Accounting at Cardiff Business School, UK. He is a regular contributor to international refereed journals, and the author of A History of Financial Accounting (Routledge, 1989). Stephen P. Walker is a Professor of Accounting at Cardiff Business School, UK. He is a former editor of Accounting Historians Journal and President of the Academy of Accounting Historians. His publications concern accounting histories of professionalisation, gender, social control and identity.
"In this first book of its kind, Edwards and Walker bring together leading writers and accounting educators to provide a historical survey of the evolution of the accounting profession and its wide-ranging influence on society and culture. ! The breadth of coverage and the integration of accounting into other fields of study make the book an invaluable resource and a premier reference. Highly recommended." -- CHOICE (April 2009, Vol. 46); S. R. Kahn, University of Cincinnati
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