Their Own Accounts. Views of prominent 20th century accountants

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  • Name Oral history
  • Name Accounting: internal issues inc costing, pricing, etc

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Comprises edited transcriptions of interviews with four leading accountants from different branches of the profession, viz: E Kenneth Wright, senior partner of Dearden Farrow, important chartered accountants of London; Jack Clayton who worked in industry; Sir Basil Smallpiece who held senior management positions at, inter alia, Hoover in 1930s, BOAC in 1940s and Cunard Steamship Co Ltd, deals with introduction of cost accounting; Bruce Sutherland who had a small accountancy practice specialising in taxation. These interviews formed part of a wider programme of c30 interviews of which eight others are published online on the ICAIS site [www.icas.org.uk/research] in 2007 - namely Laurence W Robson, Stanley Dixon, Eric Hay Davidson, Norman Lancaster, William Fea, Professor William Baxter; Harry Norris; Godfrey Judd