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I study the business practices of the Comédie française, the main theater in Paris, between 1680 and 1793. The theater was an actors' partnership and operated within a (contested) oligopoly. Newly available data provide revenues by price category for over 32,000 performances. Attendance varied...
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model of development designed by the "colonial pact" as well as by the strategic design of France in the context of the …
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. Empirical data is consistent with increasing levels of looting in France during the 1930s. We provide a comparison with Britain …
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The article introduces the theoretical foundations of the author's original concept of accounting engineering. We … assume a theoretical premise whereby accounting engineering is understood as a system of accounting practice utilising … differences in economic events resultant from the use of divergent accounting methods. Unlike, for instance, creative or …
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bisherigen Darstellungen zur Geschichte des Rechnungswesens werden daher nicht nur Techniken und Praktiken chronologisch …This essay provides a survey of the evolution and the developments of bookkeeping, internal cost accounting and … present times. It is shown that the developments in bookkeeping and cost accounting have regularly been a reaction to …
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The failures of BHS in 2016 and Carillion in 2018 prompted the government to launch three inquiries into financial reporting and auditing. Their findings and proposals were collected in the government's 2021 consultation document Restoring Trust in Audit and Corporate Governance. In May 2022,...
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This short paper reviews the economic-historical literature on ancien régime French guilds and suggests some paths for future research.
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Economic development is the result of various factors operating in space and time. For some time now, economics has been looking more closely at the role played by institutions as a driving and propelling force behind economic development. More recently, the action carried out by intermediate...
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