Accounting's representation of industrial expansion and decline: Some evidence from practice at Vickers Shipbuilding, 1910–24
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Accounting representation; Cash flow analysis; Funds-flow analysis; Industrial expansion and decline; Profit concept; Performance measurement; Vickers Shipbuilding;All these keywords.
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