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1. Accounting by the First Public Company

   The Pursuit of Supremacy

   By Warwick Funnell, Jeffrey Robertson

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   The United Dutch East India Company was the first public company, preceding the formation of the English East-India Company by over 40 years. Its fame as the first public company which heralded the transition from feudalism to modern capitalism and its remarkable financial success for nearly two...

   To Be Published November 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Critical Histories of Accounting

   Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era

   Edited by Richard K. Fleischman, Warwick Funnell, Stephen Walker

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline’s academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge