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Some notes from: Worthington, Beresford. Professional Accountants: An Historical Sketch (London: Gee and Co., Printers and Publishers, 1895): 27-29, 50-53, 65-67.
Get PDFViews from the Inside, Part 3: How and Why Families undertake Prescribed Exercise and Splinting Programmes and a New Model of the Families' Experience of Living with Juvenile Arthritis
No full textPotentialitĂ©s cliniques et perspectives dâutilisation de lâaripiprazole hors de ses champs classiques dâindication
No full textThe development of British accountancy in the nineteenth century: A technological determinist approach
No full textThis article argues that some of the most popular treatments of the development of accountancy in Britain do not accord with the historical evidence. This is true of the functionalist's altruistic view of the profession and of the predominant paradigmïżœ-ïżœthe Weberian 'professional project'. There is no evidence in the early history of British accountancy to support the concepts of, for example: monopolistic closure, credentialism, or the social construction of skill. Instead, using a model based on technological determinism, the article reasserts the importance of the industrialisation process in forming the accountancy profession, and sees the formation of the chartered societies as largely set up to brand the accountants' training and thereby preserve the value of their human capital.Professions, Accounting History, Chartered Accountancy, Technological Determinism,
