Priesthood of Industry. The rise of the professional accountant in British management
Details:
- Author(s) Matthews, Derek, Malcolm Anderson & J R Edwards
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1998
- Pages 357pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Professions, professionalism & professionalisation
- Name Management practices
- Name Accounting: external issues inc audit, disclosure, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account largely from early 19th century to post 1945. Sections include: 1] 'Roots of the profession'- pathway to public accountant, training, demand for services, non accounting services; 2] ;Rise of the accounting function' - accountancy firms, accountancy societies, gender, numbers, etc; 3] 'Accountants and business management in Victorian and Edwardian Britain' - insolvency, auditing, consultancy, cost accounting, taxation, public sector work, company secretaries and directors, etc; 4] 'Accountants in the economic maelstrom. The First World War and the interwar years' - professional practice, 'accountants in public service', work re industrial rationalisation, 'accountants on the board', 'accountants in charge', etc; 5] 'Rise of the priesthood in the post Second World War period' - accountants at war, professional firms, routes to the top; numbers in industry, etc; 6] Some explanations and conclusions