Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the adoption of double entry bookkeeping at the Royal Treasury, Portugal, on its establishment in 1761 and the factors contributing to this development. The Royal Treasury was the first central government organization in Portugal to adopt...

In this study, we estimate a cross-sectional hedonic price function for Port wines in order to determine the price influence of several Port wine characteristics. Drawing on a large sample of more than 14,000 sales from the biggest Port wine firms we find that market prices can be explained by...

This study of the interrelations of accounting and the State portrays accounting as a technology of government to effectively enact 'practical action' [Snook, S. A. (2000) <italic>Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq</italic> (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press)]...

This paper explores the role of the state in the development of accounting in the Portuguese--Brazilian Empire (1750--1822) in the context of economic and political transformations. In this period, the interrelations of accounting and the state were central to understanding accounting change in...