Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Origins, goals, membership, and professional characteristics; Functionality of the IA and its role in professionalization; The structure of accounting knowledge and the natural order of society; Decline of the IA; Legacy; Notes; References; Index
Summary
This book looks at the role accounting knowledge play in business and social ordering and what insight the Institute of Accounts experience provides about the professionalization of the US accounting occupation