PARKER, R. H.; B. S. YAMEY. — Accounting history: some British contributions.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. 24cm. 661[1]pp. Original black cloth gilt, creased d/w. VG copy. Contents: Accounting on a large estate in Roman Egypyt / D. Rathbone -- Some glosses on 'Greek and Roman accounting' / R.H. Macve -- Manorial accounts / P.D.A. Harvey -- The perception of profit before the leasing of Demesnes / D. Postles -- gency and the excessus balance in manorial accounts / C. Noke -- The oldest European account book : a Florentine bank ledger of 1211 / G.A. Lee -- Early accounting : the tally and the checker-board / W.T. Baxter -- The Gallerani account book of 1305-8 / C.W. Nobes -- Balancing and closing the ledger : Italian practice, 1300-1600 / B.S. Yamey -- The Scottish enlightenment and the development of accounting / M.J. Mephan -- Early Canal Company accounts : financial and accounting aspects of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, 1768-1816 / D.A.R. Forrester -- The development of British railway accounting : 1800-1911 / J.J. Glynn -- Fixed asset accounting in the shipping industry : P. & O. 1840-1914 / C.J. Napier -- Accounting in English local government from the Middle Ages to c.1835 / R.H. Jones -- The development of industrial cost and management accounting before 1850 / J.R. Edwards and E. Newell -- Some aspects of nineteenth-century accounting development in the West Riding textile industry / P. Hudson -- The ministry of munitions 1915-19 and government accounting procedures / S. Marriner -- Robert Loder, Jacobean management accountant / J. Freear -- The early debate on financial and physical capital / T.A. Lee -- The end of a familiar inflation accounting cycle / M.J. Mumford -- Accounting in its social context : towards a history of value added in the United Kingdom / S. Burchell, C. Clubb, and A.G. Hopwood -- Importing and exporting accounting : the British experience / R.H. Parker -- The evolution of financial reporting in Japan : a shame culture perspective / T.E. Cooke.