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Promise fulfilled: the history of the accounting discipline at the University of Melbourne, 1925-2004
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Accounting History
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May 1, 2008
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- West, Brian
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Promise fulfilled: the history of the accounting discipline at the University of Melbourne, 1925-2004 Geoff Burrows Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2006, xv and 280 pp.
As detailed by its author, the genesis of the book was a casual query at a departmental Christmas party. Professor Garry Marchant, then Head of the Department of Accounting at the University of Melbourne, asked the prospective author if he would be interested in writing a history of the department. The prospective author initially equivocated but then accepted the assignment, and for that we should be grateful. In documenting the history of the accounting discipline at Australia's second-oldest university, Geoff ...