John Richard Edwards is Professor of Accounting at Cardiff University, UK

Stephen Walker is Professor of Accounting at the University of Edinburgh, UK

The Routledge Companion to Accounting History presents a single-volume synthesis of research in this expanding field, exploring and analysing accounting from ancient civilizations to the modern day.No longer perceived as the narrow study of how a mysterious technique was used in past, the scope of accounting history has widened.

Introduction: Synthesis and engagement. 1. Structures, territories and tribes. 2. Historiography. 3. Subjects, sources and dissemination. 4. Ancient accounting. 5. Bookkeeping. 6. Mechanisation, computerisation and information systems. 7. Financial accounting theory. 8. Financial accounting practice. 9. Management accounting: theory and practice. 10. Auditing. 11. Professionalisation. 12. Practitioners, work and organisations. 13. Education. 14. Regulation. 15. Agriculture. 16. Mercantilism. 17. Capitalism. 18. Railroads . 19. National accounting. 20. Scandals. 21. Gender. 22. Race and ethnicity. 23. Colonialism and indigenous peoples. 24. Emancipation. 25. Religion. 26. Creative arts. 27. The state. 28. Military . 29. Taxation