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The Chinese accounting reformation of the 1930s

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  • Lan Peng
  • Alistair M. Brown

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This study examines the Chinese accounting reformation of the 1930s. The reformist work of Xu, the 1929 Company Law and the rapid expansion of Chinese commercial activity allowed a melding of the Westernised debit-credit model with the Chinese traditional accounting model. The fusion was complex, partly because two competing groups – reformationists and transformationists – had a different sense of scientific accounting development. What transpired, however, was a clinging by small to medium-sized entities to the Chinese traditional indigenous bookkeeping system, a preparedness by other small to medium-sized entities to take on Xu’s reformed Chinese-style method, and a willingness by large entities to engage with Western forms of accounting.

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  • Lan Peng & Alistair M. Brown, 2017. "The Chinese accounting reformation of the 1930s," Accounting History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(2), pages 177-199, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:acbsfi:v:27:y:2017:i:2:p:177-199
    DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2017.1326955
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