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Teaching "Merchants' accompts" in Britain during the early modern period

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Edwards, John Richard () (Cardiff Business School)
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British-based studies of the education of aspiring accountants have confined attention to developments following the formation of professional bodies. This paper examines educational provision during the early modern period which broadly coincides with the rapid commercial expansion that occurred in mercantilist Britain 1550-1800. We reveal institutional and pedagogic innovations designed to meet the training requirements of aspirant accountants and bookkeepers. We also show how the gendered male orientation of teaching institutions and instructional texts in accounting did not entirely exclude young women from acquiring desired knowledge of the accounting craft.

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Paper provided by Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Accounting and Finance Section in its series Cardiff Accounting and Finance Working Papers with number A2009/2.

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Date of creation: Mar 2009
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Keywords: accounting history; accounting literature; education; women;

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