... is an indicator that the accounting profession was successful. The purposes of this paper are first to describe and evaluate the nature of the accounting profession when New York CPA legislation was enacted. Second, ascertain if children adopted the public accounting profession and, if not, what careers did...

...Thomas A. Lee ABSTRACT This research note uses a city directory to identify and contextualize early practitioners in what later became the first organized professional community of public accountants in the English-speaking world. It comments more generally on the use of such a directory...

...Thomas A. Lee ABSTRACT This study examines a Scottish public accountant's association with West India slavery during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It provides a hitherto unresearched perspective on the association of accounting and accountants with slavery and contributes...

... and Philadelphia contained a comprehensive dataset of 123 accountants and public accountants, and another 21 were located during research, for 144 total practitioners. Biographical data were developed for the 108 individuals for whom additional historical records were obtained. Professional aspects of their lives...