Chartered accountants in England and Wales : a guide to historical records

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Chartered accountants in England and Wales : a guide to historical records

edited by Wendy Habgood

(Studies in British business archives)

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1994

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Description

Accountants started in public practice at least by the end of the 18th century. Initial work focused on bankruptcies, but soon accountants were performing audits and reporting on financial accounts before increasing their range of services into areas such as taxation and management consultancy. During the past 200 years, the structure of accountancy firms has been greatly transformed. This guide provides information on the present location of the archives of firms of chartered accountants in England and Wales, a few of which originated in the late 18th century. It features brief histories of almost 200 firms, together with lists of their surviving records, and includes many of the old local practices which, through merger, now form part of today's major national and international firms. Also included are histories of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the professional accountancy bodies which preceded it.

Table of Contents

  • The origins and evolution of the accountancy profession
  • bibliography of histories of professional accountancy bodies in the British Isles
  • bibliography of histories of accountancy firms in the British Isles
  • founder firms
  • accounts' archives - their nature and use
  • the accounting archives survey
  • user's guide
  • firms of chartered accountants - lists of records
  • the ICAEW and its constituent bodies - lists of records.

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