Table of Contents

Divergent streams of accounting history - a review and call for confluence, R.K. Fleischman, V.S. Radcliffe; archival research methodology, R.K. Fleischman, T.N. Tyson; accounting historiography using ancient source -: problems and rewards, G.L. Vollmers; the theory/practice schism in cost accounting history - new insights from archival research, R.K. Fleischman; histories outside the mainstream: oral history and nontraditional approaches, T.D. Hammond; biographical research in accounting, D.L. Flesher, T.K. Flesher; business history and its implications for writing accounting history, P.J. Miranti; on integrating empirical and financial historical accounting research, R.J. Bricker, N. Chandra; involving practitioners in accounting history - autobiographical vignettes, R.G. Vangermeersch; the use of the internet in accounting history research, L. Goodman, D. Palmon; the accounting historians journal Index: employing the accounting research database to profile and support research, G.J. Previts et al.

Reviews

"... highly recommended for those who want to undertake research in this field, and they will find precious advice. In general, several chapters of the book will interest every accounting scholar who wants to be aware of the present issues in accounting history and to understand the methods used in this discipline." European Accounting Review, Vol 13, No 2, 2004.