This paper contains a review of recent trends and developments in the UK accountancy profession, and an analysis of the decentralisation of branch offices to the regions. Original material is used to explore the reasons for such growth in one region, Wales, and to analyse the social implications...

This paper is intended as a study of the restructuring of world economy in the postwar period, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, the emergence of new spatial divisions of labour, and the resultant impacts on Wales. The discussion will first focus upon the relevant changes in the world economy...