Role of Accounting in the Economic Development of England, 1500-1750
Details:
- Author(s) Winjum, James O
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1972
- Pages 252pp; illus
- Publisher University of Illinois
Topics:
- Name Accounting: internal issues inc costing, pricing, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
A study of 'English economic history and the development of accounting'. Arranged in three parts, viz: 1] chapters covering general issues: 'Spirit of capitalism and the Sombart thesis. An interdisciplinary view of the role of accounting in the economic development of post medieval Europe'; 'nature of the double entry system of accounting'; 'Early English exposures to double entry accounting'; 'Early double entry treatises'; 2] Review of surviving account books, viz: 1500-1625 - Thomas Howell in the Spanish trade, John Smythe in the Spanish trade, John Johnson of Calais, Thomas Gresham, Thomas Laurence, Sir William Calley; 1625-1750 - William Hoskins, Sir John Banks, Sir Robert Clayton & John Morris, Sir Dudley North, Sir Charles Peers, Richard & Peter du Cane; East India Co; 3] Conclusion -'Role of accounting in the economic development of England, 1500-1750