More sherry and sandwiches? incrementalism and the regulation of late Victorian bank auditing

Accounting History

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-54

  Walker, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bank auditing; Britain; Companies Act 1879; History; Incrementalism; Policy making

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001778974     PISSN: 10323732     EISSN: 17493374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/103237329800300103     Document Type: Article

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