Accounting, history and accounting history

Accounting history

Chapter on Auditing in Walker and Edwards 2008 The Routledge Companion to Accounting History

Themes of audit history include• The growth (and decline) of

professions• Risk• Internationalisation

Accounting and history

• Accounting and corporate governance

• Women and investment• Working-class women and money

management

Accounting and corporate governance

UK companies 1900-1939How much did they tell their

shareholders?• In the financial reports• In the directors’ speeches to the AGMWhat did the directors talk about?• Industrial relations• The tax burden• The service of industry to the nation

Women and investment

Women Investors in England and Wales, 1870 to

1930

• How important were women as wealth holders?• What investments did they choose?• What were their attitudes to risk?• What effects did regional location have on

choice?

http://www.womeninvestors.org.uk/

Working-class women and money management

Working-class women and money management

Managing via:Savings banksCooperative societiesFriendly societies/Christmas clubsEmployee schemesInsuranceBorrowing, pawning, credit cards

Motives/management/success ?