Accountancy and Empire

The British Legacy of Professional Organization
Herausgeber: Poullaos, Chris; Sian, Suki

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together, for the first time, studies of the professionalization of accountancy in key constituent territories of the British Empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780415457712
• ISBN-10: 0415457718
• Artikelnr.: 31081968

Autorenporträt

Chris Poullaos is an Associate Professor in Accounting at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has completed a PhD on the professionalization of accountancy in Australia at the University of New South Wales. His subsequent work on the professionalization of accounting in Australia, Britain, Canada, the Phillipines and South Africa has appeared in Abacus, Accounting Organizations and Society, Accounting Auditing and Accountability, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and in several monographs. Suki Sian is a chartered accountant and holds a PhD from the University of Aberdeen and an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. She most recently lectured at Cardiff University, UK, where she was also a member of the Accounting History Group. She was awarded the Vangermeersch Manuscript Award in 2006 for her paper on the professionalization of accountancy in Kenya.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Accountancy and Empire: Setting the Stage Suki Sian and Chris Poullaos
2. The Self-Governing Dominions of South Africa, Australia and Canada and
the Evolution of the Imperial Accountancy Arena during the 1920s Chris
Poullaos 3. Canada between Empires Alan J. Richardson 4. Colonial Heritage
and the Accounting Profession in Nigeria Chibuike U. Uche 5. The Malaysian
Accountancy Profession and its Imperial Legacy (1957-1995) Devi S. Susela
6. The Imperial Roots of Accounting Closure: The Case of Sri Lanka P.W.
Senerath Yapa 7. Imperialism and Professionalization: The Case of
Accountancy in Jamaica Owalabi M. Bakre 8. Maintaining Empire: The Practice
Link in Trinidad and Tobago Marcia Annisette 9. The Influence of Empire on
the Establishment of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
After Independence Shraddha Verma 10. Between the Lines: The
Professionalization of Accountancy in Kenya Suki Sian 11. Accountancy and
Empire: Connections, Patterns and Suggestions Chris Poullaos and Suki Sian