Index – Volumes 1–20

Abstract

Editorial T. Boyns and J. R. Edwards 1 Accounting error as a factor in business history Richard P. Brief 7 Fixed asset accounting in the shipping industry: P&O 1840–1914 Christopher J. Napier 23 Regulating British corporate financial reporting in the late nineteenth century R. H. Parker 51 Speculation A systematic view of the history of the world of accounting T. A. Lee 73 Book Reviews R. P. T. Davenport-Hines & Geoffrey Jones (eds) The End of Insularity: Essays in Comparative Business History by Howard Cox 109 John Richard Edwards A History of Financial Accounting by Tom Lee 111 Kathleen Burk Morgan Grenfell 1838–1988: The Biography of a Merchant Bank by Charles W. Munn 113 Charles Harvey & Jon Press (eds) Studies in the Business History of Bristol by Trevor Boyns 115 Stephanie Jones Trade and Shipping: Lord Inchcape, 1852–1932 by David J. Jeremy 117 Notes on contributors 121