Publication Date
2002
Abstract
Both history and auditing are evidence-based practices. Accounting historians, who may be skilled in audit as well as historical research, may have special insights into how sources provide evidence to support judgments and opinions. Considerations of evidence by theorists of history may be of relevance to theorists of auditing, and vice versa. The work in this area of recent historiographers Richard Evans, Keith Jenkins and Behan McCullagh is reviewed. McCullagh's claim that fairness as well as truth is central to making historical judgments is shown to resonate with the work of auditors and hence is of particular significance to historians of accounting.
Recommended Citation
Napier, Christopher J.
(2002)
"Historian as auditor: Facts, judgments and evidence,"
Accounting Historians Journal: Vol. 29:
Iss.
2, Article 7.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_journal/vol29/iss2/7