Add to ORKGThe paper offers a new perspective on the management and accounting practices at this pioneering firm of the British industrial revolution. Using a historical materialist approach, it offers an alternative to the economic rationalist, Foucauldian and Marxist explanations in the prior literature. Based on preliminary archival research, it shows how the business practices of Boulton and Watt reflected the norms of the eighteenth century and before rather than overtly capitalist methods and used accounting to solve the problems of pricing their product and the supervision and control of labour
Haydn Jones's Accounting, Costing and Cost Estimation (1985) uses the surviving records of numerous ...
Research into the development of costing systems during the last 20 or so years has begun to challen...
We demonstrate that social movements can use accounting for progressive purposes, and that such outc...
An important debate neglected by accounting historians concerns the existence, origins and significa...
The paper argues that accounting historians can help us to understand the origins of the British Ind...
The paper examines an early case of creative accounting, and how, during British industrialization, ...
An earlier paper (Part one) argued that to appreciate the social significance of accounting today we...
How have the power and organisational effects of modern accounting systems developed? What is the ap...
Traditional accounting histories date the advent of sophisticated cost accounting to the mid-1880s. ...
To appreciate the social significance of accounting today we must study it in changing socio-histori...
Accounting and business historians are showing a growing interest in the origin and development of c...
Through a detailed critique of Johnson & Kaplan's Relevance Lost, (Johnson, H.T. & Kaplan, R.S., Rel...
Textbooks and business managers presume that accounting is the most important management control sys...
The use of accounting to help apply the principles of scientific management to business affairs is a...
The growth of industrial activity in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created a de...
Haydn Jones's Accounting, Costing and Cost Estimation (1985) uses the surviving records of numerous ...
Research into the development of costing systems during the last 20 or so years has begun to challen...
We demonstrate that social movements can use accounting for progressive purposes, and that such outc...
An important debate neglected by accounting historians concerns the existence, origins and significa...
The paper argues that accounting historians can help us to understand the origins of the British Ind...
The paper examines an early case of creative accounting, and how, during British industrialization, ...
An earlier paper (Part one) argued that to appreciate the social significance of accounting today we...
How have the power and organisational effects of modern accounting systems developed? What is the ap...
Traditional accounting histories date the advent of sophisticated cost accounting to the mid-1880s. ...
To appreciate the social significance of accounting today we must study it in changing socio-histori...
Accounting and business historians are showing a growing interest in the origin and development of c...
Through a detailed critique of Johnson & Kaplan's Relevance Lost, (Johnson, H.T. & Kaplan, R.S., Rel...
Textbooks and business managers presume that accounting is the most important management control sys...
The use of accounting to help apply the principles of scientific management to business affairs is a...
The growth of industrial activity in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created a de...
Haydn Jones's Accounting, Costing and Cost Estimation (1985) uses the surviving records of numerous ...
Research into the development of costing systems during the last 20 or so years has begun to challen...
We demonstrate that social movements can use accounting for progressive purposes, and that such outc...