'Company financial statements. An essay in businsss history, 1830-1950' in S Marriner (ed), Business and Businessmen. Studies in business, economic and accounting history

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Author(s) Lee, Tom A
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1978
Pages pp235-62
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Place Published Liverpool

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Name Accounting: external issues inc audit, disclosure, etc

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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An early paper which 'attempts to demonstrate that, despite lack of adequate disclosure and the dubious nature of measurement procedures, a great deal of useful information can be gleaned from financial statements of past decades. The company examined for this purpose is a well known one - the Distillers Co Ltd'