Doing Accounting History

This is a collection of eleven essays authored by prominent accounting historians and designed to aid potential as well as experienced researchers in the methodologies and resources available for scholarly work in accounting history.

Divergent streams of accounting history - a review and call for confluence, R.K. Fleischman, V.S. Radcliffe; archival research methodology, R.K. Fleischman, T.N. Tyson; accounting historiography using ancient source -: problems and rewards, G.L. Vollmers; the theory/practice schism in cost accounting history - new insights from archival research, R.K. Fleischman; histories outside the mainstream: oral history and nontraditional approaches, T.D. Hammond; biographical research in accounting, D.L. Flesher, T.K. Flesher; business history and its implications for writing accounting history, P.J. Miranti; on integrating empirical and financial historical accounting research, R.J. Bricker, N. Chandra; involving practitioners in accounting history - autobiographical vignettes, R.G. Vangermeersch; the use of the internet in accounting history research, L. Goodman, D. Palmon; the accounting historians journal Index: employing the accounting research database to profile and support research, G.J. Previts et al.