Rise of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance: Key Issues and Events That Shaped These Professions for over 200 Years since 1800 e-bog

With over 200 professional associations, 120 pieces of authoritative literature, 65 well-known fraud cases, 62 accounting firms (including the origins and growth of the "e;Big Four"e;), 55 regulatory statutes, 30 frameworks, and much more, this unique book shows in a chronological sequence a range of select issues and events that have impacted and led to the growth of the professions of accounting, auditing, and finance since 1800. The origins and factors that gave rise to the different types of accounting and auditing are all here. Over 1,200 well-researched issues and events are classified in the twelve chapters found within this book.