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Abstract
This research note uses a city directory to identify and contextualize early practitioners in what later became the first organized professional community of public accountants in the English-speaking world. It comments more generally on the use of such a directory as an archival source for accounting history research.
期刊介绍:
Accounting Historians Journal is an international journal that addresses the development of accounting thought and practice. AHJ embraces all subject matter related to accounting history, including but not limited to research that provides historical perspective on contemporary issues.