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A Commercial Education for 'the midling Sort of People' in Mercantilist Britain

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Edwards, John Richard () (Cardiff Business School)
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The early modern period, which covers the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, saw England transformed from a relatively insignificant European nation to one of the world's leading economies. During this era a transformation in educational provision was designed to meet the needs of a changing occupational landscape. The continued focus of grammar schools and the universities on the supply of clerics and scholars ignored the educational requirements of those involved in the administration and management of entities located within both the commercial and non-profit making sectors. Against a background of increased literacy, this paper reveals that the private schools and academies of the early modern period responded to the information requirements of larger scale entities by developing a unified commercial education based on the intertwining of writing, arithmetic and double entry bookkeeping.

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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 A2009/3.

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Date of creation: Mar 2009
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Keywords: accounting history; business education; writing master;

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