Profitability, Accounting Theory and Methodology: The Selected Essays of Geoffrey Whittington (Routledge Historical Perspectives in Accounting) - Softcover

Whittington, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415603110 ISBN 13: 9780415603119

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

An important scholar in the history of accounting, Geoffrey Whittington's numerous articles cover a broad spectrum of the field and are both sharply insightful and extremely significant. He has made important contributions to the topics of inflation accounting, accounting theory and methodology and standard-setting, and he has conducted a number of valuable empirical studies.

This remarkable collection pulls together essays and articles and encompasses his work on empirical studies based on company accounts, specification of empirical models, price change accounting, taxation and regulation, and regulation of accounting and auditing. Accompanied by a new introduction and conclusion, this significant volume will be extremely useful for historians of accounting as well as accountancy practitioners and researchers.

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Geoffrey Whittington

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415603110
• ISBN 13: 9780415603119
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480