Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Supplement A: Ride Through Accounting History -- Chapter 1 …: Accounting and the Ancient World -- Chapter 2: The Dark Ages to the Enlightenment -- Supplement B: Double Entry: A Brief Primer …

-- Chapter 2: Taxes and Funding Public Policy -- Chapter 3: Public Policy and Government Accounting -- Chapter 4: Markets …, Madness, and the New Deal -- Supplement B: Scandals and Corruption -- Chapter 5: Post-World War II Business and Accounting … -- Supplement C: What's So Difficult About Setting Financial Accounting Standards? -- Chapter 6: The Tech Bubble to Subprime …

history, while standards and technologies have changed, a fundamental purpose of accounting in business governance remains …General social theory provides a framework within which accounting and its role in advancing business and society can … be examined, including historical development and functions. This study examines the advent of accounting in business …

further reform of Chinese accounting. Contents: Brief History of Accounting in China up to 1949; Accounting in Mao's China …Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Brief History of Accounting in China up to 1949 … Economic Reform: 1978 - 1984 -- 8.1 Economic Reform 1978-1984 -- 8.2 Accounting Development 1978-1984 -- Chapter 9 Planned …