Accounting History Review

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): Stephen Walker

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Volume 35, issue 2, 2025

(Poor) accounting for God: the tracking and monitoring of cash flows in the Custody of the Holy Land’s network (1650s–1680s) pp. 117-147

Antonio Iodice

Accounting documentation of the bankruptcy of Emperor Matthias of Habsburg in 1615: archival sources and research possibilities pp. 149-169

Petr Vorel

Institutional pressures, business model innovations and accounting evidence: the case of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence during the sixteenth century pp. 171-204

Giacomo Manetti, Carmela Nitti and Marco Bellucci

Beyond the statutes: inequality in the access to boards of directors in eighteenth-century Portuguese joint-stock companies pp. 205-227

Angelica Vasconcelos

Volume 35, issue 1, 2025

Continuing to innovate and build our community pp. 1-2

Cheryl Susan McWatters

Revisiting the British railway ‘mania’ of 1845–1846 with Marx’s theory of crises – was it a ‘great railway under depreciation swindle’? pp. 3-65

Rob Bryer

Legitimising programmes of government by means of accounting. Promoting a railway system in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany: the Leghorn-Florence Railway (1838–1841) pp. 67-99

Valerio Antonelli, Emanuela Mattia Cafaro and Raffaele D’Alessio

Corporate depreciation practice in early twentieth-century Japan: a comparative analysis of the textile industry pp. 101-116

Yuta Sumi, Takashi Kitaura, Jumpei Yamada, Yasuhiro Shimizu and Masayoshi Noguchi

Volume 34, issue 3, 2024

‘Accounting [in] History’ through diverse theoretical and methodological insights pp. 129-133

Carmelo Marisca

Accounting for sustainability in water supply: the case of the ‘Bottini Aqueduct’ in medieval times pp. 135-164

Maria Cleofe Giorgino and Federico Barnabè

Cereals, politics, and the role of accounting. the case of ‘Magnifica Patria’ pp. 165-187

Stefania Servalli, Gaia Bassani and Antonio Gitto

Accounting for the ‘causes’ of the revenues and expenditures of the State: the first budget law of the Kingdom of Italy pp. 189-212

Claudio Columbano and Fabio Giulio Grandis

Explaining stable accounting practices at the Mahou brewery, Madrid, 1890s to 1970s pp. 213-236

Martin Quinn and Alonso Moreno

Putting academy awards and accounting together. Franco Cristaldi and his Italian film productions (1954–1992) pp. 237-267

Valerio Antonelli, Maria Francesca Lupo and Lucia Lauri

Accounting and the sea: [We all] count what comes from it pp. 269-271

Cheryl McWatters

Volume 34, issue 1-2, 2024

How hegemony works: the fate of a presidential initiative pp. 1-47

Brian A. Rutherford

Artists and their economic context. A comparison of payments to painters Caravaggio and Luca Giordano at the Pio Monte della Misericordia in seventeenth-century Naples pp. 49-77

Amedeo Lepore, Stefano Palermo and Andrea Ramazzotti

‘Accounting for the Music’. Institutional logics in the Regio Teatro Carolino of Palermo at the beginning of the nineteenth century pp. 79-107

Roberto Rossi and Warwick Funnell

‘American Bookkeeping’ in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries which was not American pp. 109-122

Sebastian Hoffmann and Stephen A. Zeff

Accounting history publications 2023 pp. 123-128

Martin Persson

Volume 33, issue 2-3, 2023

Reflections from the Editor’s Desk pp. 55-57

Cheryl S. McWatters

Cheating ‘Jack Tar’: seafarers’ wages in Britain’s Royal Navy, 1754–1767 pp. 59-80

Geoff Burrows, Phillip Cobbin and Jane Hronsky

Measuring profit and performance, a cautionary tale: Birmingham Small Arms c.1911–c.1936 pp. 81-102

Trevor Boyns

Social and moral accountability in action: the religious roots of corporate social responsibility in an Italian entrepreneurial family (1900–1950) pp. 103-133

Arianna Lazzini, Simone Lazzini and Federica Balluchi

In memory of Esteban Hernández Esteve, 1931–2023 pp. 135-139

Yannick Lemarchand

Volume 33, issue 1, 2023

Learning from history. Deconstructing the charge-and-discharge system within an accountability context pp. 1-27

Inmaculada Llibrer Escrig and Susana Villaluenga de Gracia

‘Non è mai troppo tardi’. An Italian TV programme in the service of public education (1958–1967): an accounting [in] history perspective pp. 29-45

Damiano Cortese and Silvia Sinicropi

Accounting history publications 2022 pp. 47-52

Martin Persson

Accounting [in] HistoryAccounting History Review Annual ConferenceEdge Hill University Business School pp. 53-53

Cheryl S. McWatters and Alisdair Dobie

Volume 32, issue 2-3, 2022

Fraud in accounting and audit research (1926–2019) – a bibliometric analysis pp. 97-143

Nicole V. S. Ratzinger-Sakel and Thorben Tiedemann

Accounting analysis of the Achaemenes archives: a summative content analysis pp. 145-171

Mohammad Namazi and Fatemeh Taak

Government Accounting in Pakistan: transition from a Legacy system to the New Accounting Model pp. 173-199

Irfan Ullah and Arshad Ali

Volume 32, issue 1, 2022

The nature, roles, uses, and impacts of accounting systems in the Real Liceo of Lucca in the nineteenth century pp. 1-29

Alessandro Capocchi, Paola Orlandini, Mariarita Pierotti and Stefano Amelio

Industry self-regulatory institutions, accounting and imitation mechanisms: the case of the ‘Unione Commercianti in Manifatture di Milano’ pp. 31-57

Carmelo Marisca, Gustavo Barresi and Nicola Rappazzo

Examining the relationships between revenues and their components and expenditures and their components using Markov-Switching regressions. Evidence from the municipality of Coimbra (1557–1836) pp. 59-89

José Luís Barbosa, Victor Ferreira Moutinho and Pedro Mendonça Silva

28th Journées d’Histoire du Management et des Organisations Accounting History Review Annual Conference Nantes Université – IAE Economie & Management 22, 23 and 24 March 2023 pp. 91-95

Cheryl McWatters

Volume 31, issue 3, 2021

Accounting [in] history in the COVID-19 era pp. 253-254

Cheryl Susan McWatters

The problematical nature of auditor independence: a historical perspective pp. 255-285

John Richard Edwards and Brian West

Corporate capers, group accounting reforms pp. 287-314

Graeme Dean

Gender stereotyping in public accounting: Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins pp. 315-334

Diane H. Roberts

Accounting History Publications 2021 pp. 335-340

Martin Persson

Volume 31, issue 2, 2021

Relational approaches to accounting change: the Stati as means of mediation in the Kingdom of Naples pp. 129-164

Alessandra Bulgarelli, Clelia Fiondella, Marco Maffei and Rosanna Spanò

Edinburgh accountants in public practice pre-collective organisation: 1757–1834 pp. 165-191

Thomas A. Lee

Corporate governance in Japan in the 1930s and its impact on financial reporting practice pp. 193-214

Noguchi Masayoshi, Takashi Kitaura, Yuta Sumi and Yasuhiro Shimizu

Occupation, financial reporting and unintended consequences in post-World War Two Japan: the case of mining corporations 1946–1950 pp. 215-252

Noguchi Masayoshi, Yuta Sumi and Yasuhiro Shimizu

Volume 31, issue 1, 2021

Public sector accounting and fiscal policy in Brazil (1906–1931): foreign credit negotiation and political use pp. 1-28

Adelino Martins

Why Lenin failed to implement Marx’s concept of socialism: an accounting history of the Russian revolution, c.1917–1924 pp. 29-71

Robert Arthur Bryer

Depreciation during the second industrial revolution: the British cycle and motor vehicle industries, c.1896–c.1922 pp. 73-112

Trevor Boyns

Accounting history publications 2020 pp. 113-120

Martin Persson

In memory of Basil Selig Yamey, 1919–2020 pp. 121-123

Richard Macve

In memory of Dick Fleischman, 1941–2020 pp. 125-127

David Oldroyd