Joking apart: The serious side to the accountant stereotype

Agency Problems, Auditing, and the Theory of the Firm: Some Evidence

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Financial accounting: In communicating reality, we construct reality

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Organising the profession: A theoretical and historical examination of the development of the major accountancy bodies in the U.K.

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The rise of accounting controls in British capitalist enterprises

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Studies in the History of Accounting.

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