Pioneers of a Profession

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Pioneers of a Profession is written by Jas. C. Stewart and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000167593 (ISBN 10) and 9781000167597 (ISBN 13).

This book, first published in 1986, analyses the lives and careers of the founding members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Contemporary professional accountancy owes its formal beginnings to the nineteenth-century Scottish accountants who formed the first professional bodies, and this book provides valuable insights for the accounting historian on the backgrounds, education, work styles and integrity of those early accountants.