The Global Accounting History four volume set aims to establish a benchmark reference source that covers the evolution … of accounting, financial reporting and related institutions for all major economies in the world in a comparable way …

accounting thought. He was one of the early accounting educators to express the high purpose of accounting and its importance in … the university, and he was among the early theorists in accounting to argue that accounting needed a coherent, theoretical … on accounting, but also shows how Paton was an active participant in the professional accounting organizations of his day …