What is Past is Prologue: Cost Accounting in the British Industrial Revolution, 1760-1850 Contributor(s): Fleischman, Richard K. (Author), Parker, Lee D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138055530 ISBN-13: 9781138055537 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Accounting - General - Business & Economics | Auditing - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
Dewey: 657.450 |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Industrial Revolution |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.25 lbs) 362 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This volume, originally published in 1997, reports the findings of extensive archival and contextual research into the surviving accounting and business records of some 200 British Industrial Revolution enterprises. This study presents an overview of cost accounting and cost management practices, whilst investigating these methods in the three dominant industries of the period - iron, textiles, and mining. In addition, it provides two organisational case studies - the Carron Company and Boulton & Watt. Finally, it explores two issues central to Industrial Revolution costing - the relationship between technological change and cost management, and the paradigmatic approaches that have predominated in costing historiography. |