More than a numbers game : a brief history of accounting /

A look at over 100 years of corporate accounting history, this text examines the key issues and events that have transformed accounting from a tool used by 19th century American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler of corporate fraud during the 2002 telecom...

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Main Author: King, Thomas A., 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2006.
Series:Wiley finance series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:A look at over 100 years of corporate accounting history, this text examines the key issues and events that have transformed accounting from a tool used by 19th century American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler of corporate fraud during the 2002 telecom crash.
Item Description:Title from e-book title screen (viewed Oct. 16, 2007).
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
ISBN:9781119196556
1119196558
0470041773
9780470041772
1280551550
9781280551550
9781118044612
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9786610551552
6610551553