Making a cast-iron case: Accountants and the Carron lawsuits of the 1850s and 1860s

Accounting History

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 35-57

  McKinstry, Sam ^a   Wallace, Kirsten ^a   Fleming, A Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Fraud; Joint stock company; Legal accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 4744341254     PISSN: 10323732     EISSN: 17493374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/103237320200700203     Document Type: Article

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