The first Scottish book on accounting was published in 1683. That book heralded a century during which Scotland established its reputation as a land of accounta

Written over a period of twenty years the papers included here reflect the changing circumstances around the study of accounting history.

Global in scope, accounting has had its share of great thinkers and practitioners, from Luca Pacioloi, the father of accounting, to R. J. Chambers, W. W. Cooper

The emergence of an accountancy profession in Scotland is described in the context of three leading Chartered Accountants, whose careers spanned the second half

This book contains a collection of papers dealing with a range of controversial issues which exercised the minds of local authority officials from 1884-1908. Th