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

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  • Name Oral history
  • Name Accounting: internal issues inc costing, pricing, etc
  • Name Professions, professionalism & professionalisation

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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