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More than a numbers game: a brief history of accounting

More than a numbers game: a brief history of accounting Thomas A. King John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2006, xiii and 242 pp.

Tom King is a US Certified Public Accountant who worked for Arthur Andersen, gained an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and has extensive business experience. He has written this study of the development of financial reporting in the USA over the last 100 years because he believes that a historical analysis of how accounting has developed puts into context the many accounting scandals of recent years. King documents how a demand for formal statements of accounting principles and standards emerged and developed, often as a response to the growing complexity ...

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