First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Trevor Boyns, John Richard Edwards, Marc Nikitin

Chapter 1 Setting the scene; Chapter 2 Economic development and the development of accounting; Chapter 3 The development of accounting literature prior to 1880; Chapter 4 Developments in industrial accounting practice in Britain and France, c.1700-c.1880; Chapter 5 Similarities and differences in accounting literature and accounting practice: some tentative explanations;