Coming into the Light. A study of the development of a professional association for cost accountants in Britain in the wake of the First World War
Details:
- Author(s) Loft, Anne
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1990
- Pages 158pp; illus
- Publisher The institute
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Oral history
- Name Accounting: internal issues inc costing, pricing, etc
- Name Professions, professionalism & professionalisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Narrative account of the history and evolution of the Institute from 1919 to c1930 and of cost accounting from around 1914. Has chapters: 'Cost accounting and cost accountants prior to the formation of ICWA'; '1919 - the aftermath of the war and the formation of the ICWA'; 'Organisation of the ICWA, 1920-30'; 'Members of the ICWA' largely in interwar years; 'Life and work of the professional cost accountant' comprising transcriptions of interviews with eight cost accountants mostly covering period to 1930