Machine generated contents note: 1.The Hidden Wound -- 2.This Imperious Company -- 3.Out of the Shadows -- 4.The Bengal Revolution -- 5.The Great East Indian Crash -- 6.Regulating the Company -- 7.Justice Will be Done -- 8.The Toxic Exchange -- 9.A Skulking Power -- 10.Unfinished Business

The purpose of this paper is to examine the emergence of auditing in a sixteenth century business organization and to link these developments to the evolution of the organizational structure and accounting. More specifically, the paper introduces into the debate material, which documents the...

For a very long time, the areas available for continuous long-distance trade were limited to territories the size of Braudel's Mediterranée (1949). Whatever the commercial organizations (merchants in the Roman or the Fatimid Empires, the Hanseatic League, the Florentine Companies), their trade...

Zwischen 1688 und 1815 verwandelte sich England von einem vergleichsweise unbedeutenden Inselreich zur führenden Handels- und Industriemacht der Welt. Im selben Zeitraum waren drei Viertel der Londoner Handelselite kontinentaleuropäischer Herkunft. Diese kaufmännische Immigrantenelite...