"Going digital": its place in research into the history of modern accounting

Alan Sangster

doi:10.1177/10323732231196256

"Going digital": its place in research into the history of modern accounting

Alan Sangster^* (Corresponding Author)

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Accountancy & Finance, Accountancy

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Abstract

This article presents the case for accounting historians to ‘go digital’, reflecting on a personal journey towards becoming a digital accounting historian, the motivations, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and outcomes. Above all, it describes benefits attainable by any accounting historian who allows ‘the digital’ to become how it should be, not the constraining master, but the flexible servant; and it sets a digital agenda for research into modern accounting history for now and for the future.

Original language	English
Number of pages	16
Journal	Accounting History
Early online date	31 Aug 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10323732231196256
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 31 Aug 2023

Keywords

digital methodology
logical fallacy
digitised sources
medieval
early modern

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