What is Past is Prologue: Cost Accounting in the British Industrial Revolution, 1760-1850

by Richard K. Fleischman and Lee Parker

Book Overview

This volume, originally published in 1997, reports the findings of extensive archival and contextual research into the surviving accounting and business records of some 200 British Industrial Revolution enterprises. This study presents an overview of cost accounting and cost management practices, whilst investigating these methods in the three dominant industries of the period - iron, textiles, and mining. In addition, it provides two organisational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138055530
• ISBN13: 9781138055537
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"