Written by an internationally respected expery, this is the first and only book to offer a comprehensive survey of accounting, authorative research on a broad international scale for the last two centuries.

1. Introduction 2. The Nineteenth Century: An International Survey 3. German Language Area: First Half of the Twentieth Century 4. German Language Area: Second Half of the Twentieth Century 5. Italy: First Half of the Twentieth Century 6. Accounting Research in Italy: Second Half of the Twentieth Century 7. Accounting Research in the French Language Area: First Half of the Twentieth Century 8. Accounting Research in the French Language Area: Second Half of the Twentieth Century 9. Accounting Publications and Research in Spain: First Half of the Twentieth Century 10.Accounting Research in Spain: Second Half of the Twentieth Century 11. Accounting Research in the English Language Area: First Half of the Twentieth Century 12. The English Language Area: Second Half of the Twentieth Century 13. Accounting Research in Finland, the Netherlands and the Scandinavian Countries 14. Japanese Accounting Publications and Research in the Twentieth Century 15. Accounting Publications and Research of Twentieth Century Russia 16. Accounting Publications and Research in Poland and the Ukraine: Mainly Twentieth Century 17. Accounting Books of Argentina: Publications, Research and Institutional Background 18. Accounting in other Countries: Publications and Research Reports 19. The Information Economic Perspective and the Future of Accounting